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BIG FIRMS DUPED. LONDON, April 24. Declaring himself a member of an Imperial Conference sub-committee formed to purchase £60,000,000 worth of tractors, Brynar James Owen, aged 35, an engineer, obtained £30,000 from the International Harvester Company of Great Britain and £35,000 from the Ford Company.' When Owen was charged at Bow 'Street with forgery and false pretences, the prosecutor said he formerly was connected with the Ministry of Agriculture and became director of tho Institute of Agricultural Research al Oxford. He approached the Harvester and Ford companies and showed letters purporting to he from Treasury officials regarding tractors, and secured loans from the companies on the grounds that the institute needed finance in order to carry out its scheme. After that the money was 'i ransferred to his own account.
The prosecutor pointed out that the Imperial Conference had not considered a tractor scheme, while a Treasury official gave evidence that there was no trace of a letter to Owen and that the letter-headings shown in Court were not official paper.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 May 1931, Page 7
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