THE HOOLEY CHARGES
AN ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. FLOTATION OF A MILLING COMPANY. Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, January 26. (Received Jan. 27, at 6.5 p.m.) Earnest Terah Hooley, Thomas Fletcher (an ei-Mayor of ■ Derby), John Angus MacDohald (an ex-Mayor of Ilkstone), Thomas Llewellyn Demery (Hooley’s sec l retary), William Alfred Wallis (a solicitor). and Bertrand Breakspear (Hooley's clerk), are being prosecuted at Bow street on charges of conspiring to defraud in connection with the flotation of the Jubilee Cotton Mills, Ltd., at Oldham. The prosecution alleged that Demery induced Lewis, a wealthy young Cardiff shipowner, to invest £60,000 ny false statements. Lewis did not know of Hooley’s connection with the .project, Hooley studiously keeping in the background.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18465, 28 January 1922, Page 10
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