BARGAIN SALE OF SILK.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1953, 9 January 1914, Page 8

BARGAIN SALE OF SILK.

CHARGE OF COXSPIBACY

."Ten -yards'of silk for 2s. M. Carnage paid. The. Ceylon-Silk Company have decided to make a special offer to advertise their silk ill: .Australia, to' forward on receipt of postal order, value, '2s. 6d., ten yards of their famous guaranteed pure, washing silk in fast colours, comprising the. following shades (a list, ot colours follows). No more than ten yards will be' supplied to each person (state colour distinctly), and make a second choice to prevent disappointment. Older early, as al lorders will he executed in rotation. This offer closes January 14, 1014. Please'mention this paper when ordering. Cevlon Silk Co., Central Chambers, 173 Pitt Street." The foregoing was the wording of an advertisement which Sergeant Mankey read at the Central Police Court, Sydney, on January 2,. and described as part of a fraud alleged to have been engineered by Edwin Percy' Liddcll and Robert Pearce Scott. Liddell appeared before the Court charged wjth having conspired with Scott to chest and defraud Mrs. B. Barton and Mrs. E-, 11. Bourko and others of various sums of money. Sergeant Mankey asked for a remand in order that further particulars mightbe obtained for the prosecution. Scott had not. yot been found by tho police. . . Mr. Bai-noit: I want to hear something about- the otso first. . Sergeant Mankey thereupon read the advertisement quoted above, and said that Sergeant Brown and Detective Pierce had visited the defendant's place of business, and found nothing there to indicate that ho was engaged in legitimate business. A hitch of 309 -letters was received yesterday by defendant, and on visiting his residence the officers found his wife seated on the floor surrounded by letters which she was opening. About 1800 nostal notes for 2s. f>d. eafeh were in the letters. Over £200 had been recovered. It was alleged that tho business was fraudulent. ' Mr. Levieu: That's your side of it. I am informed that my client is a draper, and came recently from Queensland with good references. I do i;ot object io a postponement. The hearing, was. adjoumed' to January 14, bail being allowed—self in £250, and one surety of £'250.