CHAPMAN INQUIRY.
EVIDENCE BEFORE BANKRUPTCY COURT. (Received This Day, 0.17 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 17. At a further inquiry in the Bankruptcy Court into the affairs of fessor H. G. Chapman evidence was given by Alice Maud Dunn, a former assistant secretary of the Royal Society, that she kept company with Chapman since 1916, and that although she knew he was married she accepted an engagement ring. Chapman told her that his wife had not long to live owing to an incurable disease. He gave Miss Dunn a motor-car and several presents of jewellery. He represented that he was a very wealthy man. The inquiry was adjourned generally. (Professor Chapman, it was alleged, misappropriated, the Royal Society’s funds amounting to £3360. He was foflnd dead on May 25. A post-mortem examination disclosed evidence of poison).
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Wairarapa Age, 18 July 1934, Page 5
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