Wating Taylor Case

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 71, 25 November 1884, Page 3

Wating Taylor Case

MIS-APPHOPRrATIOriS AMOUNTING TO £10,000. [PER URITE& YTLfß<i AASOCIATION.I W-titttsanoit. ' Njo vet in ber ' 22. : William Warinc iTaylor was brougli before the'. i Ee»iderit-''Magistr.-i»-e; - fcr»i> afternoon, and charged on remand will, having converted to liis own use 2« fully paid-up scares in We 'Bank of New Zealand f£2s- » wortb)f the property o* Ernest Arundell,*- legatee in the estat--of James May, ;deceascd,, Mr Edmii Jellicoe ap*^'ekred the prosecutimi.* and E. Sbaw f<jr the defence.* Mr Sha\\ applied that'the iease Should be heard on Wednesday. Mr Jellioce ofeered no ob jection. Mr Shaw t^ou/i.pp.liqd that hi.-, ciient should be admitted ? to bail. Mr Jellicoe said he BaifncTobjecliioH to bail being allowed, l>ui before ms ( -Worshif decided in the jnajtter it was.necessarj . that he shojaW understand, the position of affairs. "At tKe present time there were three ,«foarges against accused, lh<total amount of moneya. alleged to, havtbeen misappropriated being about £10,00 . On Monday othei JchargeSi involving sums amounting altogether to' -£IO,OOO. would be laid against defendant. Having said this much he (Mr- jellicoe) wouW leave the matter in the hands of the court. Sergeant -'Ma^orGopiair said that when Taylor, was arrested there was oaly one charge agamst him ;" there were now three. . Mr . Shaw , intimated that substantial Jtail was forthcoming. His Worship said he would admit accused to bail with two sureties ot £500 each in each case. Mr, Shaw objected that it would be very difficult to find so many securities, arid 1 nik Worship then, consented to take two sureties only. Mr Shaw thought that heavy .bail was not required, because his client did not wan < to run away.^lf foe had de.siredto escape he could have so since ins bankruptcy. H^fionH.h i ve gone to a place where an extradition treaty was not in force, but his 'cfeeht-difl jdo't'wantto go out of the cpuntry., Blr Shaw submitted Mr Joe DraiTsfield and iWrJbhn Beck as sureties. Mr Jellicoe accepted Mr Pransfield, and was willing to take Mr Beck, provided thaf itf one of the" other cas(*s some other also went suretyAfteJ^ome^argaiient Mr Beck satisfied his Worship as to his means, and f his recognisances; %as aecepteid. : Accused «as then a^mitW"ib "baiK nimself in £1000 and two securities of; £1000 each.