CONSPIRACY CHARGES HEARD

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22445, 5 July 1938, Page 11

CONSPIRACY CHARGES HEARD

♦ THREE COMPANY DIRECTORS IN SYDNEY COURT (Received July 6, 10.50 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 4. The prosecution for the alleged conspiracy involving Eric Campbell, former leader of the New Guard, Brigadier-General Herbert William Lloyd, M.L.A., and Richard Arthur Duesbury, an accountant, opened today in the Central Police Court before a Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr Atkinson. The case is likely to occupy two weeks. There was a formidable - array of counsel. Mr J. W. Shand is appearing for the Crown. The evidence, according to Mr Shand, concerned companies of which Campbell and Lloyd were directors, and Duesbury, secretary, namely Dumenier Laboratories, Ltd., arid Australian Soaps, Ltd. Mr Shand explained that most of the evidence arose out of the hearing of a motion in the on March 14, when the defendants applied to have their names removed from the;list of contributories of a company then in liquidation, namely, Dumenier Laboratories, Ltd. Mr Shand said that at the time the Dumenier Company was in liquidation £ 19,000 was owing to the mother company, Australian Soaps. Ltd. He suggested that evidence •would be called about peculiarities in certain draft minutes of meetings, purporting to have been held in September, October, and November, 1933, at which Lloyd’s and Duesuury’s salaries were greatly increased, and £2OOO was passed- to Campbell for services stated to have beenrendered to the Dumenier Company while abroad.