Four and a Half Years' Imprisonment for Criminal Breach of Trust Bombay, Oct. 12
In the High Court to-day, 1, Evans, formerly chief accountant of the Bombay branch of the Hong-Kong and Shanghai Banking Cor-oration, was found guilty on two charges of criminal breach of trust and falsification of accounts in respect of Government securities Valued at 510,000 rupees, Evans pleaded "not guilty." He was sentenced to four and a half years! rigorous imprisonment. in respect of amounts of ten and twenty thousand rupees, but not guilty to the charges of falsifying accounts. The latter charges were withdrawn by the representative of the Crown, who stated that he would not press the charges on which the accused had pleaded guilty if the sentences on them would not be concurrent with the sentence already Passed, The Judge thereupon sentenced the accused to one day's imple imprisonment on each charge of criminal breach of trust—Reuter,
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