LAWYER GETS THREE YEARS.
Invercargill, Last Night. At the Supreme Court, Herbert Alexander MacDonald, a wellknown solicitor, was charged Avith the fraudulent conversion and use of £1042 trust money, and on two charges of fraudulently omitting to account for £ll4 15s 2d and £152 15s received on terms requiring him to account for and pay the same to Samuel Miller and Thos. Kennedy respectively. The jury found prisoner guilty on the first two charges, and not guilty on the third. He was then charged and pleaded guilty to fraudulent conversion of a further sum of £3OB 9s, and with theft of £59 2s Bd. Accused was sentenced to three years’ hard labour on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1798, 7 March 1918, Page 2
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120LAWYER GETS THREE YEARS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1798, 7 March 1918, Page 2
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