£2,300 Kruger Sovereign Tricksters Sentenced

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 77, 2 April 1937, Page 9

£2,300 Kruger Sovereign Tricksters Sentenced

SCOTLAND YARD DETECTIVE REBUKED AND ORDERED FROM WITNESS-BOX BY RECORDER A doctor who was tricked out of £2,300 saw tho men. who tricked, him sentenced recently at Plymouth Quarter Sessions (England). Hyman Kurasch, aged 52, Jack Carter, aged 60, and B-enny Wildman, aged 37, were charged with stealing, by means of a trick, £2,300 from Dr Albert Stanley Brad law, and with conspiring to obtain from Dr. Bradlaw £2,300 by fraud. Carter was sentenced to three years’ penal servitude, Wildman to 18 months’ hard labour, Kurasch to live years penal servitude ou the lirst charge and two years’ hard labour on the second, the sentences to run concurrently. Kurasch was said to have been the brain behind the scheme. The doctor, it was stated, had agreed to pay Carter and Wildman £2,300 for two or three thousand Kruger sovereigns which were worth 32s each. Carter an' 1 Wildman in front of the doctor put the money in a bag and locked it in the doctor’s safe while they went to get the sovereigns. They nevAr came back, the bag was opened aud contained—not banknotes but newspapers. Detective-sergeant Hare, of Scotland Yard, was rebuked—while giving evidence—by . the. Recorder (Mr J. G. Trapnell) and ordered to leave the wit-ness-box. The Recorder had instructed him to answer only those questions which he gave him permission to answer. Mr Scott Henderson asked him what he found at Kurasch’s flat and the officer replied: “Nino Kruger sovereigns.” Turning to Sergeant Hare, the Recorded said: "It was very wrong ot you to answer that question.”