ABSCONDER ON TRIAL

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2172, 10 June 1914, Page 7

ABSCONDER ON TRIAL

HUGE SUMS INVOLVED. By TeJefrflnii-i-Pfess ABSBCIa-Mfin-OoWrijHiV (Red, Ju'iio 9j 11,5 p.m.) . Brussels, June 9. The iria! of Nostor Wilmari, manager of tho (Theisi-Torneuiwn Railway, who absconded in October, 1012, after ton years of fraud., involving huge sums, has begun. li, is oxpoetod that tho trial will occupy the Court, for weeks. Fourteen leading counsel will appear for tho accused, Sixty-ouo thousand forged bonds have, been traced, on which Wilmari, and his confederates borrowed twenty million francs. The ftttcusfid hoped to make tedress out of tho profits of tho sale of tho. Torneusen Railway to the Belgian Government.. .. N'estor WSlijiart, nrar.ager of tho Ghent-.P-ajhray, dtappeamSd in Octo--1»T, J.SI'l after committing frauds involving a sum of loss than two and a half million pounds, find w,tj nrri'sted at Rhoimß in the following Xarch. Wilmart is ncouspil of having sold blo.c'rs of shawa in the Ghen't-SfMUso.n Uailway swerat tisnes oW, arpil to have issued bogus Shfcft certrficatos. lie is alleged to-have perpt 1 - V.ratevl fopgonos ojte.n.ding over a period of fen y^ats,. A stockbroker $nd his wife vi'ho lost .C 25.000 in consequents of tVill.nftrt's operations committed suicide.