PHANTOM MILLIONS.
NO TRACE DISCOVERED,
AN ENGLISH CASE
Received January 15, 11.50 a.m
LONDON, Jan. 14
“The public should know that this story of the phantom millions is entirely baseless,” said the Recorder at the Yarmouth sessions when referring to the so-called Jacques estate, reputedly worth £30,000,000, mentioned at the trial of Ernest Rogers, a tram driver, who was found not guilty of obtaining £ll3 by means of false pretences from Harold Rant, a local grocer. Tiie Recorder advised a verdict of not guilty because Rant did not consider himself deceived by the references to the ownership of the millions.
An official in evidence said that although there was over £1,000,000 in the Chancery Court unclaimed, some absolutely derelict, there was no trace of the Jacques millions.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 40, 15 January 1935, Page 7
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