SOLICITOR IN TROUBLE
. MISSING TRUST FUNDS. ' (3y Telegraph.—Press Association.) . Chrlstchurch, November 3. ' In tho Supreme Court Frank Bowring Turner, solicitor, pleaded guilty to fraudulent conversion of £77 paid in trust. It was stated by tho Crown Solicitor that 'the prisoner had been drinking .heavily, and his: books were rruddjed. Mr.' Alpers, who appeared for Turner, said he used about £30 for family maintenance, and not'; for speculation. Prisoner was, dismissed from a bank two years ago for intemperance, and' qualified as a solicitor eighteen mouths ago. The money bad been restored. Turner had muddled into dishonesty. It 'was not deliberate theft. Mr. Justico Sim doferred sentence. : '-..-'...
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2298, 4 November 1914, Page 6
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106SOLICITOR IN TROUBLE Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2298, 4 November 1914, Page 6
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