FRAUDS ON EMIGRANTS.
AN AGENT HALED BEFORE THE POLICE COURT.
OTHER PROSECUTIONS TO FOLLOW.
London, January 19
G. H. Brown, an emigration agent, "as arrested at Nelson, Lancashire, on December 28, on a charge of having untamed money on false pretences in connection with forged testimonials for a farm labourer emigrating to Australia.
'The Agents-General co-operated in the prosecution. A high Canadian emigration authority, interviewed by the “Pall Mall Gazette,” stated that the number of unscrupulous agents had enormously increased, and a series of prosecutions are proceeding. Brown Ins now been remanded, and the Magistrate at Nelson will hear the case on the 30th inst. There are thirty witnesses.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 32, 20 January 1912, Page 5
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109FRAUDS ON EMIGRANTS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 32, 20 January 1912, Page 5
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