“DUE TO SHEER MUDDLE”
FRAUDULENT OMISSION TO ACCOUNT Dominion Special. Christchurch, November 18. William Francis Halliburton in the Supreme Court to-day pleaded guilty to having received £152 18s. ’ld. from Garrett Fitzgerald and fraudulently omtting to account for the money to the church property trustees also to having stolen the sums of £241- bs. and £260 7s. lid. belonging to Mrs. Alarv S. McArthur. The offences were committed at Ashburton, where Halliburton was in business as a (omnussion C. S. Thomas Icounsel for Halliburton) said that Halliburton had worked up a good agency business at Ashburton. He kept only one set of accounts instead of two. His house of cards fell to the ground and he found that he was insolvent. His trouble was due to sheer muddle. In replv to Mr. Justice Stringer, Mr. Thomas said that Mrs. McArthur was well off. She might almost be called a wealtliv woman. His Honour said that it seemed desirable to give Halliburton an opportunity to rehabilitate himself. He would allow the case to stand over until Monday in order that further inquiries should' be made.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19261119.2.67
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 47, 19 November 1926, Page 10
Word count
Tapeke kupu
184“DUE TO SHEER MUDDLE” Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 47, 19 November 1926, Page 10
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in