FIRE-RAISING FRAUDS
TWO MEN SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT LONDON, March 7. After a 13 days' trial Frederick Rickards was sentenced to six years' imprisonment, and Henry Joseph to three years' imprisonment on charges of unlawfully conspiring with Leopold Harris to defraud insurance companies in connexion with tire frauds. Together they were convicted on 17 counts. Leopold Harris was chief of a gang of fire-raisers whose activities ended last year in his being sent, to prison for seven years. Insurance companies were defrauded by this gang, losing huge sums.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21418, 9 March 1935, Page 15
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