WELLINGTON SUPREME COURT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8361, 18 February 1907, Page 5

WELLINGTON SUPREME COURT.

By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON,' February 17. Sydney George Ingram, an employee of Te Aro House, a city, drapery establishment, pleaded not guilty to having aided and abetted A. W. Purvis, late secretary of the Wellington Benevolent Institution, in frauds which Purvis perpetrated on the Trustees of that body, for which he is now serving a term of imprisonment. ; The case for the Crown was that Ingram, at the request of Purvis, made out bogus invoices against the Trustees in which items which stood charged to Purvis' private account were transferred as charges against the Trustees and paid for by them. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty after half an hour's retirement. * In summing up the evidence, Mr justice Cooper said that the Te Aro House Company management had allowed Purvis 25 per cent, discount on all goods purchased privately by him simply because he was the Secretary of an institution from which the Te Aro House Company had a contract to supply goods. It was a most improper thing, and deserved an expression of thti strongest dis: approval. The jury added a rider to their verdict endorsing His Honor's remarks.