Treasury. His explanation that he handed the fees to Mr. Newman who was then lying ill at his own house; but he could produce nothing in support of his assertion, and he had concealed from the Government everything connected with these fees until the receipt of them was brought home to him after Mr. Newman's death.
The Receiving Council with these facts before them were of opinion that Mr. Gunthorpe deserved to be dismissed from the Service even if his explanation were true; but after a very lengthened and patient investigation of every circumstance which could by any possibility throw light on the case, the Council were satisfied that the monies in question had not been paid to Mr. Newman, but had been applied by Mr. Gunthorpe to his own