CLEVER DEFENCE
SENSATIONAL CHARGES OF FRAUD. SEQUEL TO FLOATING OF KOREAN SYNDICATE. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received November 7, 7.25 p.m.) LONDON, November 7. The chief point made by counsel in defending Martin Coles Harman and three others, two of whom are Australians, on charges of conspiring to defraud the shareholders in their gigantic Korean Syndicate, was the failure of the of the prosecution to produce a single victim of the alleged conspiracy. Counsel said that most of the shareholder witnesses who came to curse, remained to bless, as shares stated to be worth 2/6 when the case opened, are now worth 22/-. Nobody had lost a penny. Harman had averted a crash. Harman, giving evidence, said the balance sheet, when he signed, was a true statement. The trial opened in July and had to be postponed until October to allow time for witnesses to arrive from Japan and Korea.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19641, 8 November 1933, Page 7
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151CLEVER DEFENCE Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19641, 8 November 1933, Page 7
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