FRAUD NOT PROVED
CASH OF CHARLES LAWSON. VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received "May 31, 5.5- p.m.) LONDON, May 30. Charles Lawson was acquitted. Charles Lawson, aged forty-five, a farmer, was charged with obtaining £33,000 from David K. Hall by means of trickery. Hall met Mac Anally, another member of the gang, who claimed to be a West Australian squatter, during a voyage from Australia. In May, "1919, Hall was induced to go to Alfred Dean’s flat, where he lost £8704 to Lawson and Dean in twenty minutes, without any idea that anything was wrong. Later he lost money in a betting deal. Hall gave evidence that he dealt in cattle and horses in Australia and New Zealand. He came to England to hay cnttls for the New Zealand Government. Mac Anally, Dean, and Dudley have already been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11224, 1 June 1922, Page 6
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147FRAUD NOT PROVED New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11224, 1 June 1922, Page 6
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