A CLEVER SCHEMER

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12042, 1 May 1920, Page 4

A CLEVER SCHEMER

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received May 1, 10 a.m "X" ' London, ApriJ 29 Charles Hease was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, sentences to be concurrent, on each of two charges of obamting £IO,OOO and attempting to obtain £50,000 and £60,000, from woollen merchants by falsely representing that h? had secured a contract to purchase from Government 15)4 million yards of surplus cloth. A surprising feature was the disclosure that Hease, who was on friendlj' Germs with several the House of Commons, repeatedly used the smoke rooms, writing rooms and dining rooms in the House of Lords and the Commons for basiuess interviews with othar strangers. The jury, in a rider, drew attention to this laxity.