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A SOLICITOR ARRESTED.

MISAPPROPRIATION OF TRUST V-MONEYS ALLEGED. ' ' 'Telegraph— Press. Association.) i Christohurch, August 1. <i A'considerable sensation was'caused in •.the'.city this afternoon, when it be-' 'came, known tlipt a prominent barris- : 'ter ; : and?iolicitor had been arrested on "a -charge of misappropriation of trust moneys. At 1.30 p.m. Thomas Maude, barrister, and:, solicitor, and estate agent, of Hereford Street, was arrested by De-tective-Sergeant Hunt arid Detective. E- 'Eogan 1 , m the City-Hotel. -" The charge on which he was apprehended w.!(3, that during the month of July,--1910;- at Chrastchurch, lie f did receive frpm' Thomas Dcrenzy Harmait the sum"of- £1050 on terms requiring him to ai&imt for, or pay, the same to. oneiiEUzabeth Barnett, and that he did .fraudulently convert . the same to his own use. , _ ' • The information was laid by Detective E. Regan, and the warrant was signed'■by.. l W. Bishop, S.M. Tim arrest ; {ivas made very quietly. The accused man, when approached by the'-defectives, expressed some surprise. Wjifen informed that were aiTcsting iitm oil the charge mentioned, he made -so sign of resistance, and 'walkea .wftli 'the detectives to the' •Police:""Station,- where after being searched in the customary manner, ho was placed in-tho iock-up. Late this afternoon Maude appeared before Mr. H. W. Bishop, S.M., and was formally charged. Bail was- granted accused in tho sum of. £1000, and two I sureties of £1000. each.

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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2218, 3 August 1914, Page 4

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A SOLICITOR ARRESTED. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2218, 3 August 1914, Page 4

A SOLICITOR ARRESTED. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2218, 3 August 1914, Page 4

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