ABSCONDING BID ALLEGED
Statement In Fraud Trial
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright)
MELBOURNE, February 14. Two men, allegedly principals in a £1,900.000 vending machine companies fraud, showed guilty consciences by buying a sea-going vessel and sailing for Noumea with their wives while on bail, the Crown alleged yesterday. The Prosecutor (Mr J. Leckie) said this in the trial of six men and three companies on charges of conspiracy and fraud arising from the operations of the North American Vending Machine Company, Pty., Ltd. Mr Leckie said the men who tried to escape were Zdnek Kempny, aged 32, a salesman, of East Malvern, and John Joseph Mohr, aged 31, of Elwood, both Melbourne suburbs. They failed because the bilge pumps broke down at sea, he said. Mohr, from the dock, objected to the Prosecutor's reference to the alleged escape as “inaccurate and irrelevant.” Mr Justice Gowans allowed the Prosecutor's remarks on the ground that the Crown presented this as evidence of guilty minds. The six men and the three companies charged have all pleaded not guilty. The charge is proceeding.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29749, 16 February 1962, Page 14
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