PHANTOM MILLIONS
MYTHICAL JACQUES ESTATE. NEVER HEARD OF IN CHANCERY. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, Jan. 14. “The public should know this story of phantom millions is entirely baseless,” said the recorder at the Yarmouth Sessions referring to the so-called Jacques estate reputedly worth £30,000,000. He was speaking at the trial of Ernest Rogers, tram driver, found not guilty of obtaining £ll3 by means of false pretences from Harold Rant, a local grocer. The recorder advised a verdict of not guilty, because Rant did not consider himself deceived by references to the owner of the millions. An official in evidence said that although there was over £1,000,000 in the Chancery Court unclaimed, some absolutely derelict, there was no trace of thd Jacques millions.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1935, Page 7
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