JABEZ BALFOUR.
• SENTENCED TO PENAL ' SERVITUDE. Press Association.'— Telegraph.— London, November 28. Jabez Balfour has been sentenced to fourteen years' hard labour. The Judge, in passing sentence, said the prisoner's was tho master mind which planned the frauds, and he obtained millions by using others, who were simply tools in his hands- The prisoner received the sentence without showing any outward sign of emotion. In connection with the Liberator Building Society frauds, G. E. Brock and M. Theobald, two of the directors were sentenced to nine and four months respectively. On the announcement the sentences the crowd in the streets cheered, and there was great excitement as the prisoners were removed. Tho Grown has decided not to proceed further in connection with the charges against those alleged to be implicated in the frauds.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9991, 30 November 1895, Page 5
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