BIG SWINDLE ALLEGED.
MAN LOSES £BOOO IN 20 MINUTES TRIAL OF LAWSON. (Received May IS at ••-1<» p.m.) LONDON, May 17. Charles Lawson i whose arrest wa cabled on May i Ith land who is 4. years of age, was charged 1 :'b obiam ing £25,000 from David R. tlall !■; urea if?; of trickery. The prosecution. stale.; Hall me Maeaually, another member of the I aw son gang, who claimed 1" bo a Wes' Australian squatter durit . .. wwngr from Australia in May 191!' Ha wa induced to go to Alfred That where hi' lost g 5.704 sterling to Lawsot and Dean in 20 minutes, without anv idea there was anything; wrong. Latei he lost money in n betting deal. Hall eave .evidence that, he had deal ip cattle and horses in Australian and New Zealand. 11" came to England tn buy cattle for the New Zealand Goivernment. „,, , M-umnaliv. Doan and Dnbley have already been sentenced to live ydars.
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Grey River Argus, 19 May 1922, Page 5
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