"COLOSSAL GANG OF SWINDLERS."

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1672, 16 December 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

"COLOSSAL GANG OF SWINDLERS."

£60..000 BUCKET*-SSHOJ? CASE

.London, October 28. A new development in the bucketshop case, in which Herbert .Jones, a stockbroker, is alleged to have been asisted in a "colossal firm of swindlers," who obtained £60,000 .from the public, occurred in Birmingham yesterday, when Joseph John Lovesay. a stockbroker's.jclerk. of Holmdeneavenue, Heme Hill, S.E., who is a son-in-law of Jones, was remanded with him.

It was stated that Lovesay was arrested in Birmingham Gaol while visiting Jones. The firm traded as T. Morton Harris and Co., of Birmingham and New York. ' ; A man who is on his way from America -will be arrested in due course," said Mr Hil, for the proseI cution. "while the chief director, the brains in the firm, is being tracked in the South of England. Before Jones came to Birmingham twelve months ago he lived in a small tobacconist's! shop at Brighton, almost in a state of penury.

1 think that when the case finishes we shall have rid the country of a most dangerous and clever gang of i who have been exploiting Wot Only Birmingham aiiu London, biit the whole of the British IsieS." Lovesay, he added, was a clerk in a refutable stock and sharebroking business in. London. Bail was refused.