THE DUBLIN BANK FRAUDS. Disastrous Speculations.
At the- Dublin Commission Court, James Humphrey, Ross Todd,' and Henry Morgan pleaded guilty to an indictment charging them with having from tittle to time within a period of eighteen months "embezzled up- * 'ward's of £2^,000, the, pfcppe'rty'of the.Pro'virictalpEfank. Ross Todd had 'been" a6countant an,d Morgan, • cashier of the Dublin. ' blanch of the; bank, <arid"in-J«ly, 1887, the' former began 'to, speculate ''in Hotchkiss shares/ His first bransaetionwas*successf-ul, j and he then drew, as ,he afberwards.con;-. fessed, Morgan into the epecu lotions, .with > him. Subsequent traneaptions effected s wit.h the funds of the bank were disastrous, a;)c(,. fearing detection, the prisoners" absconded. They vVere ai'rosted in Spain, and brought, backon a"n* exWaditi6h WarranL to; Dublin. Baron Dowse sbntenced each' prisoner to five years' penal servitude.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 394, 17 August 1889, Page 3
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130THE DUBLIN BANK FRAUDS. Disastrous Speculations. Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 394, 17 August 1889, Page 3
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