HEAVY BAIL FIXED
Counterfeiting Charge ARREST OF MILLIONAIRE Vienna, November 25. The millionaire trans-Atlantic flyer, Charles Levine, who was arrested while entraining for Venice from Semmering, on a charge of being connected with a counterfeiting plant, has been released on £l5OO bail. Solicitors cabled to Mrs. Levine, New York, with whom a divorce suit is pending, and the money was transmitted by cable forthwith. Levine says that he is confident of proving bls innocence. Charles Albert Levine, once a groom and deale.r in old iron, and now a millionaire tube manufacturer, set out from New York on June 4,1927, in a machine piloted by C. D. Chamberland, in an attempt to reach Berlin. The pair were eventually obliged to land at Eisleben through lack of fuel. A month later they parted company. Levine wanted to fly back again, but his pilot did not. Levine engaged a Frenchman, Drouhin, but quarrelled with him, and made a secret departure from Paris. He arrived at Croydon successfully, though he was not a qualified pilot, and made a hair-raising landing. Later he finally abandoned his project.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 54, 27 November 1930, Page 11
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182HEAVY BAIL FIXED Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 54, 27 November 1930, Page 11
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