FAILURE TO ACCOUNT.
JALISMAN PLEADS GUILTY. ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. For five months Charles Clarke King. a salesman, canvassed the country districts of Canterbury collecting subscriptions (of "Film and Fashion Journal." He collected £63 165 6d and failed to account for that amount When he was arrested and brought before the Court at Kalkoura he made a determined attempt at suicide. but We: brought to Christchurch to stand trial on $0 charges of failing to ac-
vrotihtmfor mdney: bne charge-0t false pretenses, and a charge of attempting to commit suicide.
This morning when King came before Mr Levvy. 5.31.. he pleaded guilty to all charges except that of false pretences, which was withdrawn at the request or the police.
King was remanded for a week for sentence on the three major charges and was convicted and discharged on me others.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19883, 12 May 1936, Page 7
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144FAILURE TO ACCOUNT. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19883, 12 May 1936, Page 7
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