ALLEGED GREAT FRAUDS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 10, 10 January 1913, Page 5

ALLEGED GREAT FRAUDS.

FRANCIS SHACKLETON’S ARREST. London, December 30, Sergeant Cooper, who was sent recently to Loanda, in Portuguese West Africa, has cabled Scotland Yard that he is bringing to Southampton, whtvo he expects to arrive on January 10. Francis Shackleton, brother of Sir Ernest Shackleton, who was arrested and charged with having defrauded a lady of £IOO,OOO. Francis Richard Shackleton was corraerly a Dublin Herald. He was appointed to the Office of Arms at Dublin in October, 1899, becoming Dublin Herald six years later, an appointment he held until November, 1907. He occupied this position at the time of the remarkable disappearance of the Crown jewels, and gave evidence before the commission held to investigate the mystery of their loss. At his examination in bankruptcy last year, when he failed with liabilities amounting to about £108,386, and assets totalling £9620, Shackleton read to the Registrar the report of that commission regarding himself. Tho commissioners reported that Shackleton appeared fo be “a truthful and candid witness,” and that there was no evidence before the commission that lie Was in any way implicated. As a youth, Shackleton studied botany and gardening. In 1900 he joined the Irish Fusiliers, saw service at the opening of the Boer War, and was invalided home from South Africa.

After his bankruptcy, Shackleton resided in America, and on the Continent, until his journey fo Portuguese East Africa, where he was arrested on November 1 last by the Lourenco Marques police authorities at the instance of Scotland Y T ard, and was kept in custody until the arrival of an escot from England.