A CLEVER ROGUE
SWINDLES NET £IO,OOO. Tho trial of Samson Suwolsky, twenty-two, clerk, alleged to have defrauded ■ his employers, the Jewish Colonial Trust, Ltd., of LiG,(JOO, concluded at the Old Bailey. Mr Roome, prosecuting, said that so far as tho cleverness of Buwolsky’s scheme was concerned, he paid to it “ a humble tribute of admiration.” Suwolsky, who rose rapidly from office boy to dealer in tho foreign exchange department of tho trust at a salary of £S 10s a week, worked out a plan by which lie could take advantage of last year’s fluctuations in tho value of the French franc.
By an elaborate preparation and destruction of documents, _bo pretended that a scries of transactions had been carried out by which the trust lost heavily, and ho himself drew tho amount they were supposed to have lost.
Suwolsk.v withdrew liis plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty. Ho was sentenced to eleven mouths’ imprisonment in the second division, and ordered to pay a sum not exceeding £2OO toward the costs of the prosecution.
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Evening Star, Issue 19661, 14 September 1927, Page 2
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174A CLEVER ROGUE Evening Star, Issue 19661, 14 September 1927, Page 2
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