BRUGES AGAIN!

NZ Truth, Issue 138, 8 February 1908, Page 4

BRUGES AGAIN!

; ' ■» A CHRISTCHURCH SHARK IN TROUBLE, Magistrate Day Does His Duty. Was the Prosecutor Squared? The name of Francis Henry Bruges Tuas called at the Christchurch M&gistrate's Court on Wednesday m connection with charges of alleged misappropriation of moneys entrusted to his care. It will be remembered that Bruges,- who was a solicitor, went bankrupt for a big sum, and he subsequently stood his trial for swindling m conjunction with his managing clerk. The' latter got auod, '.but Bruges escaped on an appeal* Subsequently he had his name erased from the roll of solicitors. This week he was to answer eight charges of breach of trust, involving something like £500 odd. On his case lieing reached, Mi* Dougall rose and said that on behalf of the prosecutor, William Edward Brown, he