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country, and go through military drill so that we I might increase our defensive and offensive forces.j Arthur Brickwood Hutchings, solicitor, Al-not I derman and ex-Mayor of Devonport, was tried at the Devonport Quarter Sessions on Saturday on two indict*meuts charging him with obtaining by false pretences four 1 500/. from Richard Heard, and also with fraudulently 'the I causing Matilda Bell to execu te a mortgage deed for *1 j I 280/. in order that the some might be used us a valuableault;l security. The Prisoner had thnce been Mayor ofVoliDevonport; he held a commission in the local Volunteer • ** I Corpe ; and was a prominent member of the Masonic said I Order and of several Friendly Societies. It was alleged1/iAil I ♦ i t ♦ a v « t a % m as . l .a ?a _ #Ided against him that he had for years been in the habit of the financing the speculative bulldifinancing the speculative builders of the town, and that stog I in May he fraudulently obtained 650/. from Mr. Heard,I « i t _ • i « ♦ a . . I a _| butcher, carrying on business in the borough, in exchangen.4 8 I for a mortgage on three houses in the St. Levans-road._____ortgago on three houses in the St. Levans_____the Tbe false pretence was that he represented the houses t to in question as completed when they were not nearly finished. In the second case he sold a house to Mrs. hup Bell for 300/., she paying 100/., and leaving the residue 6 vlt °* 200/. on the mortgage which tho Prisoner executed 1 the for her. When the Prisoner induced her to sign tho tttod deed she believed it was for 200/., whereas it turned ro®® out to be for 580/., and this the Prisoner deposited with 7* a Mr. Maitland as security in aurther matter. The that prisoner was found Guilty, and sentenced by the lie-* to corder to twelve months* imprisonment, without hard P°n labour* The Prisoner, who is nnder 40 years of ago, u* has been found a bankrupt, with liabilities amountingHim145* to about 30,000/., the assets being practically valueless, hisJ8.® I A meeting to advocate a reform of the fiscalthe t friugi weut and «numlpig.the bi count 28th ithe w1638,Mr.amou that t issuet draw; was : Defci countthe wpigw was a knowgiven a viei with that I of tbJotGene•truciPolioAt
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London Standard
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, Jan 09, 1888
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