BANKRUPT’S BLUFF.
COURT ALLEGATIONS. LONDON, Sept. 22. A remarkable story was tolcl in the Brentford Court when David Watson was charged with stealing a motor yacht. The prosecution explained that the managing director of a motor boat company, believing Watson to be a financier, requested help from him. Watson, who was an undischarged bankrupt, so impressed a meeting of the company’s directors that he was .given charge of its affairs, under the supervision of an informal committee, 'whose members reposed complete trust in him. It was alleged that Watson sold a motor yacht and- other property beloging to the creditors of the company, paid the money into liis wife’s banking account and destroyed all documents concerning the transactions. The bearing was adjourned.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 October 1924, Page 7
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122BANKRUPT’S BLUFF. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 October 1924, Page 7
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