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ALLEGED CONVERSION

WELSH SOLICITOR COMMITTED FOR TRIAL AT ASSIZES

Six charges of alleged fraudulent conversion of moneys entrusted to him to pay other people were preferred against David Moy John, aged 33, formely a solicitor of Porth, Rhondda, at the Porth, Glamorgan, Court yesterday.

John was arrested at Liverpool on Saturday night, and was brought up in custody after having failed to obtain sureties.

Mr. David Rees, Pontypridd, who appeared for the Director of Public Prosecutions, stated that John had received from four different persons sums of £100, £110, £120 and £160, to be invested upon mortgages in the district. He did not complete the deeds, nor pay over the money, but, it was alleged, converted it to his own use.

At the Glamorgan Assizes in November he acted for the Century Assurance Company, who defended an action brought against them in respect of the death of a man who was killed in a motor car accident.

The company lost the action, and judgment was given against them for £500. Of this amount £150 was to be paid the widow, and the balance paid over to the Pontypridd County Court in trust for the children of the dead man.

The insurance company paid John this sum, with his own costs, amounting to £250, and later they sent him a cheque for £212, the taxed costs of the solicitor for the plaintiff.

It was alleged that John converted the whole amount to his own use, and had not paid any of these sums to the persons entitled to them.

John, who pleaded "Not guilty" and reserved his defence, was committed for trial at the Glamorgan Assizes.

Identical articles appeared on the same day in the following papers:
Western Daily Press - page 8
Newcastle Journal - page 5
The Scotsman - page 5