SWINDLING CHARGES.
i bogus house dealer. ! By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright j Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON. May 17. Charles Ijawson. a farmer. aged, forty-five, who was arrested at Southampton Inst. week, lias been charge I with obtaining £25.000 from David KHall bv means of trickery. Ball metAfacannllv. another member of the 1 gang, who claimed to be a lYest Ausi tralian squatter, during a voyage from Australia in Alay. 1010 Hall was induced to go to Alfred. Dean’s flat where, without any idea that anvthing was wrong, he lost £8704 to Lawson and Dean in twentv minutes. Later he lost money in a betting deal Hall gave evidence that he dealt, in cattle and horses in Australia and New Zealand. Tie said ho cam ' to England to buv cattle fov the New Zealand Government. Mnennallv Dean and Dudlev barn sirendv bee** sentenced t<* five years*
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16737, 19 May 1922, Page 4
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