TO STAND TRIAL
BRITANNIA BANK PAIR
WAS OFFENCE DISCLOSED?
MAGISTRATE'S DOUBT
(United Press Association— By Electric Tele-
graph—Copyrifibt.)
SYDNEY, Ist October
"When the case in which James Mond and Victor Cunningham are charged with attempting to- defraud various persons by inducing them to become shareholders and depositors iv the Britannia' Bank, Limited, and other companies they were forming, was continued today, the prisoners were committed for trial. »
Mond'a counsel, Mr. Manning, sub' mitted that no offence had been disclosed in the evidence.
Detective-Sergeant Lawrence said that the police were satisfied that there was intent to defraud, judging by the two men's actions.
The Magistrate, Air. Shepherd, asked: "Don't you tbink tho prosecution is premature as the scheme bad not matured, it being said that everything was subject to confirmation in England?"
Deteotive-Sergcant Lawrence expressed the opinion that an agreement to commit an offence alroady had been completed. "What the accused intended to do afterwards the police did not know.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 81, 2 October 1931, Page 7
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159TO STAND TRIAL Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 81, 2 October 1931, Page 7
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