TEXTILE SWINDLE
GERMAN TRICKS BRITISH FIRMS. BERLIN, February 18. A man named Ernst. Rausnitz, 6-1, has been sentenced to six months’ im ) risonment hero for swindling three Ifi’itii.li textile firms. Two men accused of re'-eivjiig were acquitted. '’he fraud involved twelve firms from i.eir<- ; q ( - r , Manchester, Bradford, and Glasgow, and nearly .£BOOO was invoiced. But us the man had already be.n rentenced by another <’ouri for fraud, the present charge only reiai.m i-, frauds ou one firm in i lam o-|- ,-ind |\\o in Bradford. Ramoiit.z. claiming to be an agon*, sent forged eiders to the firms. After the delivery of the goods in Germa my be wrote iimt they had been rejected Lj- flic, rus-omers owing to d<!licieD<'i< :; in Priee and quality. ;H ifl offered to m-ll l( *w<T pi*i<*o on connni\ssiou. lb- lirnm, fo save (lie cost of return '.UTfage. agreed, thereupon be sold '.lie sometimes as much as 2b per eoiiL under price, bill did not pay "ver to bis British clients all the money he received.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 April 1933, Page 9
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171TEXTILE SWINDLE Greymouth Evening Star, 12 April 1933, Page 9
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