WHO CAN IT BE.
" Bog don't; prey up.on dbg, : nbr. hawk pick QVlt hawk's een,'* but an unfortunate^ member of the " Devil's Brigade." has been plucking his kind, and lo 3 the whole legal fraternity are up m arms.' iAn application ha* beeo made to, the. Supreme Court, Duneclin, at the instance, of the President' of the Law Society, and a rule nisi granted 5 by Mr. .Justice Williams, to strike off the rolls a li*ta member- of one. O.f tl^e leading legal firms m the city. ; ; Thft-af^davifc pf th« prijicip^l meinbpr c»f the, Situ showed that there, hqd. been a. large misappropriation of theflrm's money by the solicitor m question. Poor devil, had he practised his profession upon, tfye outside public, and hunted, up victims beyond the pale of the Law Society, not only the. Bar b^ti B,encH w.ai^ld. still smile benignly upon him, but m forgetting the old proverb of " honor among thieves " he has Jaid <;h,e. w[hble Brigade iipon his track. I wonder who is. the nnfortunate legal Ishmaelite, who has been thus sent into banishment. ■ - . '.
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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 87, 29 October 1879, Page 2
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