EX-SOLICITOR SENTENCED.
BATCHELOR TO SERVE TWO YEARS’ DETENTION. Christchurch, March 8. In the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Adams sentenced John Black Batchelor, ex-solicitor, to two years’ reformative detention on the charges of theft of £I2OO of clients’ money. The Judge said Batchelor’s example would have a most serious effect on the reputations of those carrying on their business in a perfectly honourable way and would bring on these trustworthy and honourable people undeserved suspicion and distrust. Persons who were least able to lose their money were the most easy victims. It was true that as a result of the discovery of facts prisoner would be struck of the roll of a most honourable profession and one to which he ought never to have belonged. When a man entered upon the practice of such an honourable and learned profession he ought to have known better than be guilty.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3916, 9 March 1929, Page 2
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147EX-SOLICITOR SENTENCED. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3916, 9 March 1929, Page 2
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