CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD
THE HOOLEY CASE AGAIN. APPEAL DISMISSED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received June 2, 8.40 p.m.) LONDON,, June 1. Ernest T. Hooley’s appeal: was dismissed.. Ernest Terah Hooley, Thomas Fletcher (ex-Mayor of Derby), John Angus MacDonald (ex-Mayor of Ilkeston), Thomas Llewellyn Demery (formerly Hooley’s secretary), William Alfred Wallis (solicitor), and Bertrand Breakspear (Hooley’s clerk) were charged with conspiracy to defraud in eonnec-, tion with the flotation of the Jubilee Cotton Mills, Limited, at Oldham. The prosecution alleged that Demery induced Lewis, 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 back ground. -After a twenty-six days’ trial the jury found Fletcher and Breakspear not guilty, and the- others guilty. Hooley was sentenced to three years in the general division, Macs Donald was bound over, Wallis received ten months? imprisonment, and Demery a year, both in the second division.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11226, 3 June 1922, Page 7
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