A STOLEN APHRODITE
STATUE WORTH £20,000
BUSINESS MAN SENTENCED
(Uniter) Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.’
LONDON, January 26
John William Bell, a leading insurance assessor, who has been largely associated with Lloyd’s, was convicted of receiving a gold of Aphrodite, valued at £20,000, and wa,s sentenced [to one year’s, imprisonment. He was also ordered to pay £2OO cO*ts. In passing sentence, tli,g Recorder said; “If machinations such as Bell has been engaged in with the underworld went unchecked there would be an end to confidence in jjrinsh commercial integrity.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1933, Page 5
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89A STOLEN APHRODITE Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1933, Page 5
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