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conviction I

the merchants and

enged Solicitors holding powers of Attorney for freditors in the Bankruptcy of Lyall Still to from whose estate

the

largest part of the money embeggled had been taken, and in

Come

other estates the creditors living in the flony, to

forward and krake Stuffam

Stuffam a Bankrupt, is that

Leve

might be able to lay handson

any property he had for the benefit

of the defrauded creditors.

ぬ

is

scarcely

credible but I

could not induce

A

single creditor

to take the necessary steps. They

or were

within tos apathetic, influenced by some mistaken

were

notion that the Government evouto

refine Stuffam's defalcations, and that by making hum

Qu

Bankrupt

they wouts prejudice their rights.

I should

say

that

before

Stuffam's conviction finding out that his furniture

was about to be soló

I had instructed the frown Solicitor, who holes a power of

Attorney

for some

creditor in the

for

to

Bankruptcy of Lyall, Still Has t

file a petition to make Stuffam bankrupt.

This

was done and Staffem.

was

ad judicated

A

Bankrupt, but

| it turned out that the

has not been served

proper

notices

on hime in