HIS WIFE’S MONEY.
ALLEGATIONS IN SYDNEY COURT. Sydney. August 24. Allegations that he squandered £120,000 in two years belonging to his first wife, were mode by the police when Henry Stedman Carr, 45, a Sydney broker, was sentenced at the Darlinghurst sessions to twelve months’ hard labor for fraudulently misappropriating proceeds of the sale of 1000 22s shares. For stealing two inscribed shock certificates, and for obtaining £3BB by a valueuess cheque. Carr was also sentenced to twelve months’ gaol in each case, the sentences to be concurrent. Drinking and gambling, the police said, had brought Carr to his present position. Carr said his speculations had gone wrong, but he had good propositions in view, and would make full restitution when he had served his sentence. Judge Cohen said he could not treat Carr lightly as he had systematical! v deceived his clients.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1922, Page 8
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143HIS WIFE’S MONEY. Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1922, Page 8
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