SUPREME COURT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8743, 18 February 1907, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

Per Press Association

Wellington, February 17.

Arthur Law, charged at the Supreme Court with having kept an office for betting purposes, was acquitted. Sydney George Ingram, an employee of Te Aro House, a City drapery establishment, pleaded not guilty to having ended and abetted A. V/. Purvis, late secretary of Wellington liauovolont Institution in frauds which Purvis perpetrated on the Trustees of that body, for which he is now serving a term of imprisonment. The case for the Crown was that Ingram, at the request of Purvis, made out bogus invoices against the Trustees, in which items, which stood charged to Purvis’s private account, were transferred as charges against the Trustees and paid for by them, The jury returned a verdict of not guilty after half-an-hour’s retirement.

In summing up tho evidence in case against Sydney Ingram, Air Justice Cooper said that tho To Aro House Company management had allowed Purvis 25 per cent, discount on all goods purchased privately by him, simply because he was the secretary to an institution from which tho To Aro House Company had a contract to supply goods. It was a most improper thing and deserved expression of the strongest disapproval. The jury added a rider endorsing his Honour’s remarks.