ALLEGED COMPANY FRAUD.
DEAL IN COTTON MILLS. SIX MEN TO BE TRIED. Australian and N.Z. Citblo Association. (Reed. 5.S p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 17. E. T, Hooley, Thomas Fletcher, a former Mayor of Derby, John Angus McDonald, a former' Mayor of Ilkeston, Thomas Llewellyn Demery, formerly Hooley's secretary, William Alfred WalHs, a solicitor, «uid Bertrand Breakspear, Hooley's clerk, have been committed for trial on a charge of conspiring to defraud in connection with the flotation of the Jubilee Cotton Mills, Limited, atlldham. The prosecution alleges that Demery in duced Lewis, who is a wealthy young Cardiff shipowner, to invest £60,000 by false statements. Lewis did not know of Hooley's connection with the project, the latter studiously keeping in the background.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18019, 18 February 1922, Page 9
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119ALLEGED COMPANY FRAUD. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18019, 18 February 1922, Page 9
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