APPEALS DISMISSED
ECHO OF CHOSEN CORPORATION CASE Bren Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. r LONDON, January 17. (Received January 18, at 11.35 a.m.) The Court of Criminal Appeal dismissed the appeals of Harman and Conigrave. Lord Hewart rejected counsel’s application for the sentences to date from the trial. [The financier, Martin Coles Harman, who was declared bankrupt in •January, 1933, with liabilities amounting to £605,544 and assets to £10,636, waa in February arrested and charged with conspiracy to defraud in connection with a Korean syndicate stvled the Chosen Corporation. H. H. Pounds, B. F. Conigrave, and E. G. Changeat, also financiers,'were similarly charged. Harman, who was originally a junior clerk, rose to control companies with capita] of £14,000,000. He was uncrowned king of Lundy Island, which he. purchased for £1,600 and greatly improved. ' He issued ■ his own coinage and stamps until they were declared illegal. . Harman was sentenced to eighteen months in the second division. Conigrave was sentenced to sis.months in the second division, arid Pounds and Changeat were discharged.]
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Evening Star, Issue 21622, 18 January 1934, Page 10
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167APPEALS DISMISSED Evening Star, Issue 21622, 18 January 1934, Page 10
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