INCIDENT IN TRIAL
(British Official Wireless.) a (Received November 8, 11 a.m.)
LONDON, November 7,
The defendant Conigrave created a stir at the resumption of the Harman trial, alleging that he saw a juror exchange remarks with a witness, the accountant who investigated the Chosen Corporation. Both witness and juror denied knowledge. < The Judge expressed, the opinion that Conigrave was mistaken.
The financier, Martin Coles Harman, who was declared bankrupt in January with liabilities of £605,544 and assets of £10,636, was charged in March with conspiracy to defraud in connection with a Korean syndicate styled the Chosen Corporation. H. H. Pounds, B. 3T. ConiI grave, and E. G. Changeat, also financiers, were similarly charged. .The prosecution stated that the Chosen Corporation was formed in J. 923 to sell a Korean mining concession to a. company to be formed. Harman obtained control of the corporation in '1930. Harman, with the concurrence of the codefendants, used the corporation's money to get his other companies out of grave difficulties regardless of the shareholders in the corporation.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 112, 8 November 1933, Page 9
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