MIDLAND BANK CASE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18266, 27 December 1924, Page 11

MIDLAND BANK CASE.

♦ lIOBBS REMANDED ON CHARGE OF RECEIVING. CIBLS—PBSSS ASSOCUtIOR—COF7IIOBT) (Stoves "Sun'' Sbbvicb.) (Received December 26t"h, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 25. Wilkinson, giving evidence on the resumption of tho caso against Hobbs, I who was charged on remand under tho Larceny Act with receiving cheques for £150,000, which were stolen abroad, said he bought Appleton's business.Mid employed Hobbs as chief clerk. Witness said he did not bear of Sir Hari Singh's affair till Robinson sued Appleton's for £120,000, as tho balance of the £150,000 which Robinson was credited through Appleton's letter to the bank. Hobbs prepared the defence, alleging that a conspiracy existed to ffnd Robinson in the company of Sir Hari Singh at Paris, but the action did not reach the Court. Cross-examined witness said Sir Hari Singli, during Captain Arthur's absence, ordered him to arrange for private detectives to watch Mrs Robinson. Witness told Sir Hari of the conspiracy, whereupon Sir Hari stopped his second cheque. Captain Arthur was not aware that tho cheque had been stopped. Accused was remanded. The judicial authorities are likely to be several weeks in unravelling the legal knot on which depends the extradition of Sir Hari Singh's aide, Captain Arthur. Tho latter was examined and then remanded to prison, where he remains at least over the holidays.