IMAGINARY DEBTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3325, 1 November 1919, Page 6

IMAGINARY DEBTS.

BQXNKRUPT. WHO “OWED ” £1,000,000.

The case of a man who “imagined he oWed over a million, whereas he had a, good credit balance, came before Judge FQSSEH LOCR as Scarbomugll County Court, when Mr .T. L. Poland, Assistant Ofiieial {Receiver-, applied on the grounds of lunacy for the annulment of the bankruptcy of Richard Huntley, mercantile clerk, of Hull, and later a farm labourer, of‘Barmston. Mr Poland said that bankrupt filed his petition and was adjufiicated bankrupt in September, 1917. ‘He then represented his liabilities as be't‘we‘e‘n ‘two and three hundred pounds, »ainEll his assets as £2B. The sujggested liabilities, however, were found ‘to be quit‘e"illusory, his real liabilities being only £4 7/ and his assets ‘£2oo. He was not called on to undergo :3. » public ".e:'<z'l‘rr’lination, us he was found. to be sufiering from hallul cina.tions",vand‘ in 'D‘e'cem‘ber', 1917, he was removed to"'Beverley Asylum, w‘h"ere‘he still is an ‘inmate. He had, been (fortified from a'fol-in of insanity that made him. imagine that he owed vast; sums. of money. ‘He had prepared a bal-ahce-sheet, ivorked out to a. sixth of a penny, in which he represented his liabilities" as over :1 million pounds, >t4hl'ec-qua-‘rfers of whit-. 11 he ‘nu’: down. to ‘ifiolicitiars. and tberest-t-.~ Ivaders. His jiHol.lour‘anlililled the 'na:lk?ilpte_\,-', and f..‘9Tdereclftha.t the assetsin Mr Po]a.nd’s '{ia‘hands‘:be *tlransfe’r"red to the Official l;§‘,§9li‘§i.tol"a;S"l'egeiyer in lunacy. L . A