“A DANGEROUS BAD-MINDED MAN.”

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 53, 4 March 1913, Page 6

“A DANGEROUS BAD-MIND-ED MAN.”

UNION TREASURER SENT TO GAOL. Alelbourne, February 25. The trial of George Mounsey, extreasurer of the United Labourers’ Union, on a charge of having stolen £312,' the property of the union, was concluded in the Criminal Court before the Chief Justice. The jury found him guilty. Air Dethridgo, accused’s counsel, said his client had never been in trouble before. Ho had always been a hardworking man. In imposing a sentence of 18 months’ imprisonment with hard labor, his Honor said that if accused had pleaded guilty in the first place the matter might have taken a different complexion. Instead of that, Mounsey had shown himself to bo not merely a thief, but an extremely dangerous and bad-minded man, one who, after pos sessing himself of money which the union had entrusted him with, came into court and accused innocent men of crime. Ho had tried to ruin thcii reputations, and not only did that, but wont into the box with astonishing audacity and swore it on oath. Had accused come forward and admitted the offence and expressed regret, His Honor would have listened to him with merciful consideration.