ARREST IN AUSTRALIA
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Sharebroker Faces Theft Charges TOTAL 0F £2620 INVOLVED
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CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. • Fourteen charges of theft invoiving sums of money totalling over £2620 were preferred against William Wallaee McCleiland, sharebroker, in the Supreme Court this morning. McCleiland pleaded not guilty. Mr Justice Northcroft presided. McCleiland had been for some years a licensed sharebroker in Christchurch, said Mr BrQwn for the Crown Prosecutor, but for some time he had been going round the eountry purporting to be selling shares, and it was out of those activities that the charges arose. McCleiland would extract money, undertaking to purchase specified shares. Finding that they were getting no satisfaction, two of the people sued him in the civil Court. In those cases he allowed judgment to go against him by default, sbowing that he should have returned the money. Other people grew suspicious and handed the matter to the police. It was then found that McCleiland had left the eountry and was in Australia. He was arrested by the Australian police.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 26, 15 February 1937, Page 7
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