"HOOLEY TERRORS" FRAUDS.
GAOL FOR THREE YEARS. A COTTON MILL SWINDLE. LOXDOX, April !). The trial of Ernest Terah Hooley, -T.P., of Risley Hall, Risley, Derbyshire: Thomas Fletcher, J.P., alderman, and ex-Mayor of Derby, a partner in W. and T. Fletcher. Ltd. lace manufacturers, of Derby; John Angus Mac Donald. J.P., ex-Mayor of Ilkeston; Thomas Llewellyn Demery, of Ealing: William Alfred Wallis, member of a tirn> of solicitors, ot Long F,aton, Derbyshire; and Bertrana Breakspear, secretary, of Littlehampton, on charges of conspiring together to cheat and defraud in connection with the purchase and sale of shares of debentures in the Jubilee Cotton Mills. Ltd., lietween Xovembcr 1. 1919. and December 31. 1920. iias ended, after having lasted '2(i days.
The jury found Fletcher and Breakspear not guilty, and the others guilty. Hooley was sentenced to three years' penal servitude. Mac Donald was bound over. Wallis was sentenced to 10 months' imprisonment, and Demery to one years' imprisonment, both in the second division. Hooley intends to appeal.— (A. and X.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 83, 10 April 1922, Page 5
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