A Serious Charge.
ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. TO DEFRAUD. . (Per Uniud Press Association.) SYDNEY, December 12. At the time of the Mount Kemtola ( disaster the Know!o> Motor Power. ', Company offered a number of nwtor cars for the dispo&al of by art union to assist the funds. 47,843 shilling tickets were sold, and the drawing took place at the end of March under the suptrivision of' the committee, including the members of Parliamenit. It was then announced that £1600 was absorbed in expenses 1, but several 1 ■ hundreds would^ beVavail&ble. The resuJt of failure to hand over anything and the hostile' criticism members of Parliament who supervised the drawing asked" thajt, the Government : aiuiditor should investigate and report. This was done, and the outcome is tihat summonses have been issued against J- A.- Darl>y,.t!he secretary of tlie Art Union, A. J.. Knowles, the mianager of th.c Knowles Motor Company, Walter. Dehass, and F. Kadmeyerl, ■ all pi-omijieinitily connected withi the lottery,, on. aclianga of con- [ Bpiraiqy to defraud.
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Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10498, 14 December 1903, Page 4
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164A Serious Charge. Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10498, 14 December 1903, Page 4
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