MILLIONAIRE’S ARREST
SAD FAMILY TRAGEDY. TORONTO, June 4. A year ago Harry Pepall, a rising young millionaire, was manager for Jervis and Gonipanv, Canada’s leading bondsellers. His "firm marketed millions of pounds worth of the prcvh-bl Government's securities, and in one ileal last July profited by more than £oUl),000. Then came an inquiry into certain commission payments, and the arrest of Mr Peter Smith, Ontario’s treasurer, on a charge of accepting a bribe. Pepall moved hurriedly to Dos Angeles, but tho long arm of the law reached 3000 miles and compelled his return. He, too, faces the possibility of a term of prison. After being released on bail to-day, be started for his country cottage, but cn route be learned that bis wife, two daughters, and a baby son had been burned to death when the cottage was burned during tho night, leaving only one boy living-
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19201, 18 June 1924, Page 6
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