CHARGE OF FRAUD AGAINST AN MP.
; — ♦ ■ At the Ramsgate police-court Mr George Hampton Whalley, M.P. for Peterborough, appeared to answer a charge of having, .obtained two sums •of £12 lOs and from Mr Colley, of th4._.Albion Hotel, llamscate, by false pretences. The ipros ecut ii »h was based, v pon two dis - honoured cheques drawn upon Messrs Rolls, paiyerf. and Co , Westminster. Mr Learpyd, said the. defendant had been deprived; of' his income by a suit in ('hanc'^ry^iind ha.d been compelled to file, a petition f< r liquidation. Mr Link" said lie had acted as Mr Whailey's financial agent during the past year. ; Hit.- firm had consented to .heqiies being drawn on them hy the defenclanV ..and. in . evcy instance where he thought it justifiable they w«'re paid; He had refused to honour Coll§y's. «hvqv e \ because he -thought his uhartse. excessive, and. because he had .received-no _dvicei ! < : charge was dismissed, - c '- " '-"
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 69, 14 February 1883, Page 3
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152CHARGE OF FRAUD AGAINST AN M P. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 69, 14 February 1883, Page 3
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