GENERAL TELEGRAMS.
THEFT BY SOLICITOR, (by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH. June 11. Lionel Lancelot Hitchings, aged 34, a solicitor, pleaded guilty to charges of failing to account for moneys amounting to £ls, received on behalf of a firm qf solicitors by whom he was employed. He said, he had been in financial difficulty and had been pressed by creditors. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. The magistrate, infixing bail, said he must make it substantial as the offence was much more serious than if it were committed by a layman. Hitchings was a solicitor of the Supreme Court, and had betrayed his trust, Bail was allowed, being fixed at £SOO and two sureties of £250. DRUNKEN DRIVER, INVERCARGILL, June 11. . Jos. Kilkelly, for driving a motor-car while drunk, was released on twelve months’ probation on conditions that he never drives a ear and that he takes out a prohibition order.
The accused collided with a post and counsel said the damage would cost £IOOO. His Worship remarked that the northern magistrates were sending offenders to prison and next time probably he would.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 June 1924, Page 7
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185GENERAL TELEGRAMS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 June 1924, Page 7
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