A Solicitor's Misdoings.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 March 1910, Page 4

A Solicitor's Misdoings.

TWO SOVEREIGNS HIS ONLY ■ ASSETS AGAINST £25,000 INABILITIES. Tlio principal evidence at Bow street recently, in the chargo against a London solicitor, was given by a senior examiner in bankrupety. Ciiarhvs Naisb, forty-one, living at Elm Grove, Hammersmith, ■and until lately practising at Norfolk street, Strand, was committed for trial, charged with fraudulently converting to his own use money belonging to several clients. A client first gave evidence of tho receipt of money on her behalf, of which she had had onlv the interest, Mrs Emily Hill, widow] living in Union square, Islington, said Mr Naish received the sum of £524 18s, the proceeds of the sale of two houses, but flll that she had received from him was interest at the rate, of four per cent. Other witnesses showed that the accused had had betting transactions with turf accountants in. the West End, and that on one occasion he gave them a bill for £200. He was adjudicated a bankrupt in October, according to Mr C. E. Arttrop, a senior examiner in bankruptcy. His liabilities amounted to £25,520 16s 3d, and his assets realised only £2. He represented that he owed £15,923 9s 10d to relatives for borrowed money. The sum of £1122 was set down as having been received on uehalf of clients and retained by the accused. The assets included a commission note for £6,000, which proved worthle.se. The ledger bad not been posted since 1900, and the last ciitrv in the cash-book was elated 1905'. The defence was reserved.