DEATH IN GAOL
CONVICTED STOCKBROKER.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, MELBOURNE, January 5.
Clarence Royal Curwen, aged 52, a former member of the firm of Ward and Company, stock and sharebrokers, died from heart failure in Pentridge Gaol after serving less than three weeks of a sentence of four years’ imprisonment. When Curwen was sentenced, the Crown prosecutor announced that no presentment would be filed against Alfred Keith Ward, another member of the firm.
On December 16 Curwen was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment on three charges of larceny as an agent. Curwen and Ward were committed for trial some months ago, each on eight counts of larceny. Similar charges against William Cowper Ward, senior partner of the firm, were then adjourned indefinitely. Medical evidence was that Curwen was in a state of senility and was playing with children’s blocks. The three charges admitted by Curwen involved £lOOO worth of scrip and stock.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1939, Page 5
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