A BIG FRAUD

Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1930, Page 5

A BIG FRAUD

MANY PERSONS TAKEN DOWN

(United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.!

(Received this dav at 1.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 20

The astonishing credulity of simple minded investors was again revealed when the police interferred in the activities of the Automobile and Royalties Corporation, and Clark Parker and his son Wyman were indicted for an extraordinary fraud in hoodwinking seven hundred aged couples and clergymen, and defrauding them of 200 thousand sterling, which they invested in Parker’s rotary motor, which refused to motivate.

Parker is a venerable high, pressure promoter and trustee of the “’Church of The Stranger.” He was associated with the late Doctor Eugene Christian in the latter’s success in “a putting over” vitamins and with famous health iaddists mailing list. He assured his dupes that his automobile royalties would do for their purses what vitamins had clone for their stomachs.

The police found Parker’s sales of wizardry astounding. Dozens of Parker’s victims were mulcted of thousands of dollars, not once but on several occasions by their own testimony, brjfc they write in his defence and argue that lie suffered because unscrupulous motor manufacturers withheld the royalties on his .patented inventions.

The police regard Parker as tbe most prolific and persuasive letter writer in recent fraud history.