COMMITTALS ON CHARGES OF EMBEZZLEMENT AND LARCENY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3668, 17 April 1883, Page 3

COMMITTALS ON CHARGES OF EMBEZZLEMENT AND LARCENY.

CniusTcnuncH, This day. At the Kaiapoi Magistrate's Court yesterday, in the case of the "Waimakariri Harbor Board against C. E. Dudley, charged with embezzlement, the accused reserved his defence and was committed for trial. A further charge of larceny as a bailee was postponed for a fortnight. The accused w:is ordered to be committed to gaol for a month for contempt of an order of the Court to produce certain Borough Council books, but was granted a week's grace to allow the matter to be brought into the Supreme Court. In a case against A. S. Gilchrist, charged with acting as a solicitor without being on the roll in preparing some documents in a recent divorce suit, Mr Stringer, who procuted on behalf of the Law Society, said that similar evasions of the Law Practitioners Act were becoming a matter of daily occurrence here, and this case was only initiative of others. Mr Beetlnun, It.M., reserved judgment. Nelsox, This day. Francis James 'Hodgson, who was formerly teller at the Nelson branch of the National Bank, was charged at the Police Court yesterday with the larceny of 500 sovereigns belonging to the bank. j\lr Black, manager, stated that the money was missed in ISSI, but thoro was no proof until October last, when the accused admitted having received from him (Mr Black) a bag containing 1000 sovereigns in error for one of 000 sovereigns. He also said that he planted 300 sovereigns in Christchurch and speculated with the remainder in hopes of boing enabled to repay the ■whole. The accused was committed for trial. Bail was allowed—himself in £000, and two sureties in £250 each..