CHARGE OF FRAUD
SALE OF SKINS IN WHICH BOMB EXPLODED. (Rec. December 3* 7.50 p.m.) London, December' 2. '• At tho Guildhall, Barnefc Samson charged Louis Segal, Abraham Segnl, and Henry Himmelschein with' conspiring to fraudulently sell him ii,ooo sheepskins for leather, knowing they were -worthless for the purpose. Samson's counsel said these were the skins stored in tho Old Swan Lane warehouse, in which an explosion occurred on November 30. T.lie bomb exploded among..the skins, but he did riot make an accusation regarding the bomb against tho defendants— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [The explosion was at first attributed .to .Irishmen, but a later message said that experts did not believe that it had any political significance. The.bouib was declared to be. not of the Sinn Fein type, and was believed to have been an amateurish production, and probably contained ordinary gunpowder.]
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 60, 4 December 1920, Page 9
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140CHARGE OF FRAUD Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 60, 4 December 1920, Page 9
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