Escape of the Thames Town Clerk
(PER UNITED. PBESB ASSOCIATION.) 1 Thames, July 15- ; The Police Court was crowded to-day i when the charges of eml> szlament against F. C. Dean, late town clerk, were called ' on. Accused did not appear, and the ] Crown Prosecutor said he escaped in a boat on Thursday night. He character- ! iaed Dean as a greater Pigott, and said his embezzlements amounted to £1000, < carried on over a series of years by an artistic system of deceit and forgery. The Resident Magistrate estreated the < bonds ahd ordered a fresh warrant to be 1 issued. ■■■>'-.._'
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 13, 16 July 1889, Page 2
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