THE MASSEY CASE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 839, 11 January 1883, Page 2

THE MASSEY CASE.

. : sv , I [by telegraph.] ( DtrNßDiiT, To-da£ > In Massey’s case Mr Stout prosecutes 1 and Mr Fitchett defends. Mr and Mrs I Massey have been charged jointly with stealing, waterworks debentures. jMt ' Stout opened the case length. He said --that a number of waterworks 1 bonds were prepared in duplicate l fbrhfckchange, and handed to Massey, the then 1 town olark, who' retained' them. After i Massey left the corporation employ, the book referring to the waterworks '■ tares could not be found, and l iphon^he > was written to he repliadthat 1 books. After his arrest this book was fdund > at his house. -The duplicate bonds " wire > sold by Mrs Massey in Mhlbopipeyand to shew that her husband was aware of Ivw > action, Hhe counsel. read > the sale results,, taken Massay’s i, pocket book, which was ‘found on ( him when arrested. ; The'case for the prdsbcution was this : —Massey obtained '-Hie bonds ready for exchangethat he left the town clerk’s office without,, delivering them up to Mr Gibson (the present tcpfrn clerk), and that these bonds, which were intended for exchange, were afterwards sold in Melbourne by Mrs Massey, with , his knowledge, and that he reaped the rej ward of her sales. » si-dno The case is exciting great interest here.