MAN WHO TALKED MILLIONS
T'tREE AUSTRALIANS DEFRAUD®!?
IMPRISONMENT TERM gOiaXWCTI
By Telegraph—Pre« Astm—CopyrfsM Rec. 8.20 p.m. Sydney, Feb 2ft, At the quarter sessions to-day CM* ton Arthur Luke, aged 29, agent, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment on three charges of false pretences* Luke, according to the evidence, posed as an agent of the “British-Australia Trust,” which proposed to lend * large sum of money to the Commonwealth Government. He told a fanciful tale of millions for investment and brought in the names of Mr. Bruce, a former Prime Minister, Lord Derby and sey> eral British financial magnates, who were supposed to be behind the scheme. He.finally induced three persons here te advance sums aggregating £l3OO, which he converted to his own use.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1931, Page 7
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