(Darlington) Northern Echo - 12 May 1899
SOLICITOR IN TROUBLE
At Ashby-de-la-Zouch yesterday, Charles Tertius Green, solicitor, Coalville, Leicestershire, was remanded charged with appropriating to his own use £509, the moneys of a client, and applying to his own use the sum of £275 belonging to the Whitwick Granite Company. Defendant is secretary of the Coalville Conservative Club, and well known locally.
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Leicester Chronicle and the Leicestershire Mercury- 13 May 13 1899.
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A COALVILLE SOLICITOR
At the police office, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, on Thursday, the prisoner, Charles Tertius Green, solicitor, of coalville, was brought before Mr. George Moore, of Appleby, superintendent Holloway explaining that the prisoner had been arrested on two charges - appropriating to his own use the sum of £500, the moneys of a client named Reast, and applying to his own use the sum of £275 15s. 10d., the moneys of Whitwick Granite Company. - After the charges had been read, Supt. Holloway asked for a further remand until Saturday next. - The Magistrate remanded the accused accordingly. - The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was then removed. He looked dejected and ill.
The prisoner was for a considerable time secretary of the Coalville Conservative Club. It was known that warrants were issued for his arrest, and considerable interest in his arrival at Ashby was manifest in Coalville, Ashby, and district, where he was well known.
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There's more articles. One of which gives his age at 35 another at 31, names the moneys as belonging to William and George Reast. The thefts took place from September 30 1895 to February 11 1899. The stolen money wasn't spent on himself but "for liabilities for which prisoner became responsible on behalf of his father". He pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to five years of penal servitude because, despite his previously good character, his theft represented a gross betrayal of trust that the public ought to be able to place in the legal profession and a man in his position. Then 15 January 1900 he was "struck off the rolls" by a divisional bench of QCs.
I have a fighting soldier in the Crimean, his family originated from Lancashire, not beeen able to find out much.
So shall be well on the route to him also?
If you can give me a name I can go fishing. But he'd probably have to be quite senior in order to be named in the papers I'd expect.
