FRAUD CHARGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 November 1934, Page 6

FRAUD CHARGES

EVIDENCE OF SHARE-BUYERS [PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] The hearing of the case in which the Craftsman Manufacturing Company is alleging fraud against Charles Ernest Vickers and Ernest Mabin Gilmour, chiefly concerning orders for motorcar headlights, was continued in the Supreme Court to-day. William Hugh McKinney, chemist, Auckland, said that he met the accused at Wellington. They represented that the Wellington and Timaru wharves were to be lit by the Company’s light, ! and witness took 200 shares. Later, Gilmour tried to induce him to take 500 more, telling him that all the Hutt railway buses were being fitted with lights; also some tennis courts. Witness applied f®r more shares, and on the understanding he was to be made a director of the company, paid £5OO for them. Subsequently he was notified that he had been appointed a director in .place of Gilmour, who had resigned. Had there been no promise of rood business lift wnnlri nnt havA

taken the shares, whether appointed director or not. William Ferness Stevens, retired farmer, Marton, described the representations made to him by Gilmour and Kelly, as the result of which he subscribed for shares. Cross-examined, he said he was already a shareholder when he saw Gilmour, and the main reason he took the lirst lot of shares was he had a light on his ear and it was very satisfactory. Another share purchaser, Francis Lionel Marshall, carrier, of Wellington, gave evidence similarly, and admitted that they were very good lights. (Proceeding).