CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD
THRRE MEN SENTENCED.
jfwm A«ooi»tioD—By' T«legraph—Copyrijjnl LONDON, July 18. (Received July 19, at 0.20-sun.)
Thomasett has been sentenced to 20 months' ; imprisonment, Lambert to 18 months, and David to 15 months.
An alleged conspiracy involving £22,000 '•was referred to at. Bow Street on March '"''l2, when Victor Tbomosßet (45), a solicitor, of Crown to*, Bromley Common; Adricn David (50), clerk, of King's Gardens, West Hampst&ad, and Aurele Lajn&at de Lambert (si), banker, of Sandwich crescent, "West Hampstead, wero charged with con- , spiring with others unknown to obtain by -•false pretences £8000 from Elias Azaneot "'and others.
Mr R. D. Muir, prosecuting, said that m two cases, which ho stouki be in a position [to prove, fie defendants had defrauded the '•prosecutors of upwards of £22,000. Two of the defendants were aliens and the third was a native of France practising in England as a solicitor.
'r-Divisional Detective - inspector Gough .proved the arrest of Thomosct at an office on the second floor at 23 Fleet street, bear- . ioff on tlhe.door the name of "E. Thomaseet -and Co., solicitors." Lambert ho arrested 1 ;/at the 'offices of the British and Foreign -. Joint Syndicate (Ltd.),' in fb© Strand.
On this evidence Sir A. do Rutzen granted a remand and declined to allow fail.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15820, 19 July 1913, Page 10
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