Cried Aloud For Mercy

NZ Truth, Issue 1237, 15 August 1929, Page 1

Cried Aloud For Mercy

(From "<N.Z. Truth's" Special Dunedin Representative). OVER a period of four years, Frederic Arthur Lloyd, who was once a V.M.C.A. secretary m London, and who was at the time clerk to the Maniotota County Council, helped himself to money amounting to a total of £419/18/9 from the funds of the Council. Lloyd's defalcations were discovered; and he stood his trial m the Dunedin Supreme Court and was found guilty on two counts, V When he appeared for sentence, his counsel, Mr. .R. H. Simpson, stated that Lloyd had now wrecked his life, and had a wife and a child dependent on him. There was nothing to indicate why he had committed the offences, and counsel would put m references which spoke of his previous honesty and integrity. "It is regrettable that m the punishment! must impose on you, Lloyd, suffering must inevitably fall on your wife and child, but the pain of that must be part of your punishment," said his Honor. \ Lloyd had greatly abused his trust, and for his crime he would be sentenced to one year's imprisonment with hard labor, to be followed by a year's reformative detention, added his Honor. Lloyd, when. he heard the. sentence, cried aloud for mercy, and was carried below m a state of collapse. '