FORGED LEASES.
j LONDON, May 9
On a charge of conspiracy to defraud a number of solicitors and clients by means of forged leases involving £50,000, Lomax, a solicitor, was sentenced at the Old Bailey to five years; Thomas Simmons, a solicitor's clerk, to four years; ,T. M. Birkett, a clerk, to IS months. Charles Gibson, a house and estate agent, was discharged.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 110, 10 May 1902, Page 5
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