A GERMAN MILLIONAIRE.
A remand was made at .Liverpool n the case of an elderly German named Robert Julius Hamer, reported to bo the owner of mining estates m the United States worth £18,000,000, avlio was charged with having entered Liverpool without police permission, and with having given false information to an hotelkeeper.. To tins'© charges he pleaded , guilty. , In July of last year the accused came to London from the Unitcu States• with the .intention of disposing of some of* his estates, ana apnarently lie had stayed in London since then. When arrested at Liverpool he was about to return to America. At first-he denied being a German, but later admitted ft. ; A . _ For the defence it was.urged that, his presence in England' was entirely connected with. business. He had some years ago applied for naturalisation papers in America, but. through forgetfulness the matter was never completed. v • t
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4144, 22 January 1916, Page 7
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150A GERMAN MILLIONAIRE. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4144, 22 January 1916, Page 7
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