BUILDER'S SUICIDE
o MG MALVERSATIONS. I'HAI I>S TOTAL £100,000. (Received T2, 8 o a.m ) • Lo.ndon, Feb 21. George Franklin, a Southampton .jj builder, conm.i-.ted suicide at V a B flolborn public baths on Tuesday. iO Frauds amounting to £100,000 have .. since been -discovered, nearly every v solicitor and bank in {•'outuampton being victimised. One bank lost a £IG,OOO. Franklin sometimes raised the 0 money nine times by means of bogus leases. He lost the proceeds «.f the frauds in speculation. a Two or three solicitors discovered j that they held duplicate deeds and ;> called a general meeting. Over 50 j Hampshire, Dorset and Wilshire solicitors attended, and discovered they j had been similarly tricked. Franklin was highly respected and , was a Justice of the Peace.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5476, 23 February 1910, Page 3
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