PROFESSOR’S AFFAIRS

Southland Times, Issue 22378, 18 July 1934, Page 7

PROFESSOR’S AFFAIRS

FORMER SECRETARY’S EVIDENCE.

(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rcc. 12.15 a.m.) Sydney, July 17. At a further inquiry by . the Bankruptcy Court into the affairs of Professor Chapman, evidence was given by Alice Maud Dunn, former assistant secretary of the Royal Society. She said she had kept company with Chapman since 1916, and although she knew he was married she accepted an engagement ring. Chapman told her his wife would not live long owing to an incurable disease. He gave Miss Dunn a motor car and several presents of jewellery. He represented that he was a very wealthy man. The inquiry was adjourned.

Sensational disclosures concerning the financial affairs of Professor Henry George Chapman, Director of Cancer Research at Sydney University, were made in the Bankruptcy Court on June 1, upon a petition by the Royal Society alleging that Chapman, as treasurer had misappropriated the society’s funds amounting to £3360, and stating that the society held no security over Chapman’s estate. Evidence was given of fruitless efforts to locate the professor’s supposed assets, a list of which was attached to his will amounting to £85,000. Witnesses described the assets as “mere bluff.”