At the Police Court before the Chief Presidency Magistrate G.W. Brown Clegg, a European is being prosecuted on a charge of cheating Miss Hewett of the United Free Church Mission in respect of Rs. 870 and criminal breach of trust as a servant in respect of Rs. 66. It is alleged that on 1st February, 1915, the accused as manager and partner of the School Equipment Company received an order from Miss Hewett’s school for black boards and school desks and on 18th March, 1915, received full payment of Rs. 910 for the goods. The black boards worth Rs. 40 were delivered to Miss Hewett, but ten months later when she wanted the desks the accused was not to be found. On enquiry it transpired that the business of the School Equipment Company was taken over by Messrs. Forbes Forbes Campbell and Company on 13th February 1915. The accused had therefore no authority in doing any independent business or to receive any money on behalf of the company after that date. Yet the accused took the amount from Miss Hewett and paid it on his personal account in the bank. The accused was arrested in Bombay in April and was let on bail for Rs. 1000. He was rearrested on a complaint from Messrs. Forbes Forbes Campbell and Company that he had collected a bill for Rs. 66 belonging to the complainants from the General Post Office and failed to pay the money. He was let on bail again. He broke both bills and absconded to Calcutta where he was arrested on warrant on 3rd May and brought down to Bombay. The case stands adjourned.
