ALLEGED FRAUDS.
BIG SUMS PAID FOR' CHINA: DEALER pjST DISGORGE. (BT TXLKGBAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIQUT*) (Rec.' May 15, 0.3 a.m.) London, May 14. Tho executors of Chas. Dickins, of Dickins and Jones, drawers, have been awarded £10,345 damages against Arthur Ellis, a Bond Streot dealer, owing to the latter's fraudulent misrepresentations in connection with sales of china. ' ' , Dickins, then an octogenarian, spent' £130,000 upon Sevres and Dresden. ' After his death it: was discovered that tho articles wore largely forgeries. In one case deceased had paid Ellis.£l2oo for.a piece worth £10. Mr. Justice Grantham hinted that a criminal prosecution of Ellis would follow. A civril action against another dealer, is pending. ■ ; ' .
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 508, 15 May 1909, Page 5
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109ALLEGED FRAUDS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 508, 15 May 1909, Page 5
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