FRAUD CHARGE IN SYDNEY.
CORKHILL AND PAGE BOTH ACQUITTED. (Received May 22, 11.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 22. The Crown is not proceeding with the "cases against Messrs O. E. Corkhill and W. T. Page, of the Associated Dominions Assurance Company. Both men have been acquitted.
[At the end of January, William Thedeus Page, aged 45, a company diI rector, and Oswald Elfe Corkhill, aged 47, a secretary, were charged with attempted fraud. The charges were that Page and Corkhill, who were manager and secretary respectively of the Associated Dominions Assurance Society, Ltd., circulated and published a bal-ance-sheet, which was false in certain material particulars, in that it was falsely stated that the assets of the company were £236,241, they then well knowing the particulars to be false, j with intent to deceive and defraud the shareholders in the company.]
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20862, 23 May 1933, Page 9
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