EXTENSIVE FRAUDS.
LONDON, May 16.
At Old Bailey H. E. Fry, director of a smelting corporation, and E. H. Everett, a smelter, were each sentenced to five years' penal servitude for defrauding city bankers by means of bogus ore warrants. The evidence showed that they pledged 6129 tons of ore while the actual stock was only 1436 tons. The frauds represented £100,000. Prisoners pleaded guilty, but urged that they unwittingly made mistakes in ear marking the ore warrants. The Eecorder declares it was one of the most elaborate and mischievous frauds that had come tinder bis notice for yeara, _
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 116, 17 May 1901, Page 5
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