SWEDISH SCANDAL
NOkEMEN UNDER CLOUD
According to the London "Daily TttKSiV- Stockholm correspondent the sudden dismissal of Baron F^W. O Leuhusen, Chamberlain to , King Gustav.of Sweden/was due to a charge of embezzlement and of having illegally participated in profits from mushrooms growing in .the cellars of the House of the NobiUty. of which he barely a month earlier another Chamberlain was dismissed, and is now facing a charge of rembezzluig funds to the value of £3000. The charge against Baron Leuhusen, who is under arrest, is that he misappropriated £10,000 belonging to the House of the Nobility. Baron Leuhusen is 65, and was due to retire on pension last year. r • ... At a meeting of the directors of the House of the Nobility Baron Leuhusen was severely criticised for having, without permission, let the cellars or the House to a firm of mushroom growers. Investigations revealed that the baron himself was a partner in the Further inquiries showed that the baron had failed to pay into the bank of his employers a large sum of money presented by Count Essen in 1934 . im start a new fund for widows and childt ren of the Nobility.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 95, 23 April 1935, Page 7
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195SWEDISH SCANDAL Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 95, 23 April 1935, Page 7
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