DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3369, 9 October 1879, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Last night.

In the Supreme Court to-day, in the case of Thomas Chalmers Reid, charged with embezzlement, the Jury, after an absence of about an hour and twenty minutes, returned with the following verdict:—" On the first, second, and fifth counts they found the prisoner guilty, and not guilty on the third, fourth, and sixth —in other words, that as a director and member of the company, he was guilty of fraudulently appropriating £1456 to his own use, and not guilty of fraudulently appropriating the same monies to the use of J. Chalmers Bead." Thos. Chalmers Eead was then indicted on ten separate counts with having, as director and manager of the Colonial Building Society, received from Alexander Adam, on behalf of the Society, the sum of £20, fraudulently appropriated the same, and with having failed to make or cause to be made an entry of receipt of same in the cashbook. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. The Jury returned a verdict of guilty on counts charging him as a director of the members with having fraudulently appro priated the sum of £20. The prisoner was then indicted for fraudulently appropriating the sum of £100, alleged by him to have been drawn by his brother. The verdict of guilty was returned in this and two similar cases. The prisoner was remanded for sentence, pending the arrangement on law points raised.

(Pjeb Pbess Agkncy.)