FRAUD AND SUICIDE.
* -V'' ; DUPLICATE DEEDS. ; EVEN THE LAWYERS WERE BLED. By Telojraim—Press Asaooiation-Oonyrleht Lpndon, February 21. Goorgo - Franklm/ .' a Southainptoii builder,. committed: suicide at : tlia Hoibom public baths on Tuesday.' \ ■ Frauds' involving the sum of <8100,000 starling have .:. since been discovered.' Nearly ! every' solicitor and bank in ' Southampton• has■ been /victimised.' One bank lost /: .' Franklin sometimes raised money, nine times upon tho. same ' land: by ' meansof bogus .leases, but lost the proceeds of his frauds by speculation. ;• v v_Ti vo or three solicitors' discovered that. they/ hold .duplicate' deeds, and called a general, meeting, which over. fifty Hampshire, Dorset, and Wiltshire solicitors • attended. ' They had been similarly. tricked, •mnkhu ,ivas highly respected. Ho was a-Justice of the Peace,'-.'
heavy losees. ' .(Rec. February 22, 9.30 p.m.).' ■ London, February 22. One of Franklin's victims,. a solicitor, suffered fo thojeitent of Others lost:- ,£30,000, and . upwards. ■ '' •
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 749, 23 February 1910, Page 5
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