GENERAL CABLES.
A SERIOUS CHARGE
(Received 8.45 a.m.) London, March 9
Franklin, who was charged with setting fire to a railway train at Harrow, was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay the oosti of the prosecution: ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCE. * In the case against Newton, and Bennett, Thorsch, the complainant, gave evidence that he was induced to invest £14,500 in the Manchurian Concessions, Limited, for which he did not receive any return. Subsequently, Newton and others persuaded him to invest £IO,OOO in an alleged bogus land and timber concessions in Canada. Newton’s bail was fixed at £IOOO.
RUINED IN ONE DAY. A /I Dimitresco, a Roumanian, suicided at Brighton. He was ruined in a single day, losing £60,000 in speculation.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 58, 10 March 1913, Page 6
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122GENERAL CABLES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 58, 10 March 1913, Page 6
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