BANK FRAUDS.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.
London, October 8. Harry Benson, found, guilty vof frauds in connection with Feltham's Bank last year, has been sentenced to five years' penal servtiude.
Benson, a financial agent, was, with a bond broker named George Petty, charged with conspiracy to defraud in '■ connection with the International Securities Corporation and Feltham's Bank, of which they were lately directors. Both the concerns in question are now in liquidation. Counsel f-r the prosecution alleged that a total sum of £189,000, representing the savings of poor people, had been . defrauded by the International Securities Corporation, and £500 by Feltham's Bank.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14188, 11 October 1909, Page 5
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