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Evening Star, Issue 4130, 23 May 1876, Page 3

GIGANTIC FRAUDS BY AN EXECUTOR.—A HARD CASE. At the Liverpool Police Court, Henry Todd Naylor, a merchant and insurance agent, of Liverpool and Birkenhead, was brought up on remand, charged with having fraudulently appropriated to his own use the sum of L 38,674, which had been entrusted to him on behalf of the family of the late Mr Charles Potter Dodson, of Rosehill, Prestbury, Gloucester. Mr Cheshire, from Cheltenham, prosecuted, and the prisoner was defended by Mr Butler, barrister. It was stated by Mr Cheshire that Mr Dodson died in 1862, leaving a large amount of personal property in railway shares, &c,, which was proved at about L 40,000. The prisoner, who was appointed one of the executors, appeared to have then commenced a systematic course of misappropriation, the consequence of which was that Mrs Dodson and her children—six in number—were reduced from affluence to poverty. In June, 1870, prisoner wrote to Mrs Dodson, saying he had lost all her money, and in October he again wrote to the same effect. The following year Naylor filed a petition in bankiuptcy, and it was shown from the statement of his affairs then produced that he owed his creditors about L 97,000; and that besides having, according to his, own showing, squandered L 47,000 belonging to the Dodson family, he had misapplied L 32,000 belonging to a mercantile firm. The prisoner’s assets consisted of his household furniture, which was settled on his wife, and brought LGOO, and a dividend of Jd in the pound was paid, the Dodsons receiving L 12.0 out of L 47,000 due them. The delay in tiking proceedings was in consequence of Mrs Dodson’s unwillingness to prosecute the prisoner, who is her brother. Her children, however, had taken the matter up. The prisoner was committed to the assizes for trial, •■■“*■