Eighteen Months for Peking Broker Mentsin, Oct. 22.
Erle Dudley 'Thunder, Peking exchange and share broker, was sen-fenced here to-day to. i8 months' imprisonment after pleading "guilty" to-an indictment on three counts of misappropriation and conversion, The defendant entered the witness-box and made a lengthy sworn statement of explanation in which he out-ined all the extenuating cireumstances in his favour.
Counsel for the defence, Mr.
Evans, made a moving appeal for 'Judge A. G. Mossop, in sentencing 'Thunder to 18 months' imprisonment on each count, the terms to run concurrently, pointed out that the maxi mum penalty he could impose was seven years. The Court, however, would fake into consideration a varlety of extenuating circumstances, in cluding the refusal of the defendant to accept the opportunity to flee and the help he had given the Oficial Receiver during the investigation into his affairs. Other extenuating. cir cumstances were Thunder's youth and inexperience and his upbringing, Bast. 4 which was almost wholly in the Far
It is anticipated that Thunder will serve his sentence in Shanghal—Reuter.
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