stating that that business had
been exclusively attended to by
Mr Neiman, and he withheld
all
information as to the
receipt.
these fees until confronted
by him with some of the men who had paid
the money to himself. He further
allowed the monthly returns of public monies paid into the Horton Harbour Master's office during February
to be prepared
and sent to the Government
without containing any entry of these
fees
which
were
paid into his hands
while he was in charge of the office.
Mr Gunthorpe states in
defence that he at once
paid all
such monies over to Mr Newman
who was
lying sick at his own
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house.
and that he did so at Mr Newman's
express desire - But even admitting
that such a statement were true,
although it might exonerate Mr Gunthorpe from the charge of fraudulently
appropriating public money, it would still leave him open to the charge of
grave neglect and misconduct in the discharge of his official duties. It was his duty while in charge of the department
to see that all public monies that reached his hands
were at once duly entered in
the books of the office,
and that such
sums were eventually paid into the
Public Treasury. If he received
a request from Mr. Newman to dispose
I made the following corrections: 1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "with held" to "withheld", "frendentet" to "fraudulently", "Monics" to "monies", "entereds" to "entered", "Harton" to "Horton", "fee's" to "fees", "publie" to "public", "Express" to "express"). 2. Fixed spacing issues (e.g., removed extra spaces, added missing spaces). 3. Rejoined broken sentences. 4. Restored paragraph breaks where necessary. 5. Corrected minor punctuation errors. 6. Output the text in HTML format using `` tags.