GREAT CLOTH FRAUDS
BUSINESS .INTERVIEWS AT WEST- ■ MINSTER, ; .-.• '•, London, April 28. Charles Hease was found guilty of obtaining ,£IO,OOO and of attempting to obtain and from a woollen merchant by falsely representing that ho had secured a contract 'to purchase from the' Government 15} million yards of surplus cloth. Hease was sentenced to imprisonment for five years. A surprising feature of the trial was the disclosure that Hease, who was on friendly terms with members of Parlia-' ment, repeatedly vised the smoke-rooms, the writing-rooms, and the dining-rooms in the House of Lords and House of Commons for business interviews with other strangers. The jury brought in a rider drawing attention to this laxity.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . ' ' .
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 186, 3 May 1920, Page 5
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