BRIBERY CHARGES

Southland Times, Issue 21771, 28 July 1932, Page 7

BRIBERY CHARGES

TIN HARE DEALINGS FURTHER EXAMINATION OF SWINDELL “DOUBLE-CROSSING” (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 9.25 p.m.) Sydney, July 27. At the mechanical hare inquiry Frederick Swindell was further examined. He was asked for the reason for splitting a cheque for £5OOO into smaller cheques. Swindell replied that it was to make five transactions, reducing the rate of taxation. Mr Monahan, who is assisting the commission: Was it not to defraud the Tax Commissioner? Swindell: No. The Royal Commissioner: Wasn’t the whole thing a fraud and a fake?—No. Then it’s a matter of your standards? —The cheques were made out in others’ names. I got no profit You got £5OOO for scrip for which you paid nothing.—But it was only a small profit. The Commissioner: That’s a matter for the Tax Commissioner. Swindell denied a portion of Felix Booth’s evidence that if a certain company was formed £7500 should be paid if it got a permit to hold coursing. Michael Gleeson, a director of the Australian Coursing Club, explaining dealings with Swindell and the anxiety of various clubs to get licenses when mechanical coursing was restored, declared that Swindell had, he believed, “double-crossed” them. The Commissioner: That word “double-crossed” apparently means that both parties were in a crooked business and one afterwards went crooked on the other. Isn’t that the meaning? Witness: No. After the whole thing was legalized Swindell got our licenses from us; therefore he “double-crossed” friends and pals. The Commissioner: I must say I don’t know anything in the English language so expressive as “double-crossed” or anything that corresponds with it. The hearing was adjourned.