SOLICITOR CHARGED.
‘ A LENGTHY INDICTMENT. NEW PLYMOUTH, Friday. The trial commenced In the Supreme Court to-day of Harold John Moule Thomson, solicitor, of Inglewood, aged 57 years, and his clerk, Samuel Robert Darlow, aged 37 years, on a long series of oharges alleging the theft of sums of trust moneys amounting approximately to £BOOO, from 'December, 1927, to February, 1931. The Indictment contained 60 counts representing 20 alleged offences. The charge*-were of committing theft by receiving moneys and fraudulently omitting to account for them; of committing theft by receiving moneys and In violation of good faith fraudulently applying them to some purpose other than that to which they were directed to apply them; and of stealing money. Evidence was given in detail on Hie charges involving house and farm deals.
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18342, 30 May 1931, Page 7
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