ALLEGED FRAUD.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13735, 29 May 1913, Page 5

ALLEGED FRAUD.

ARTHUR NEWTON ACQUITTED

(Received May 28, 9.60 p.m.)

London, May 28

Arthur Newton was acquitted of tho charge of conspiring to defraud Dr Thorsch.

Arthur Newton, a well known solicitor, who defended tho murderer Crippen, and Berkeley B. Bennett, a land agent and an undischarged bankrupt, were charged with conspiracy to defraud Mr Hans Thorsch, a doctor of laws, of sums aggregating £23,000. A Count Arthur Festetsics, an Hungarian subject, was also alleged to' be implicated. It was alleged that Dr Thorseh, a young man of considerable means, and a native of Prague, wont to England in 1911 and mot the Count and the accused, and was .induced to invest in various enterprises from which he secured no returns. Those were a company known as the British Manchunari Concessions, Ltd., .a concern called Los Grottes Casiito Syndicate, Ltd., and the purchase of land 1 in Canada. The Count fled the country, and was not apprehended.