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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 309, 15 December 1936, Page 8

Mau Who Planned Swindle Vanishes ! • r . - - - 1 1 METHODIST MINISTER’S £6,887 J “GOLD REEF” SHARES I I When a share-pushing swindle was rej sealed at the Mansion House, London, I t was stated that the man responsible • ’or the organisation, a “Air Robinson,” i md disappeared. ! The victim of the swindle, Rev. Edj <vard Pomfret, stated to be a Methodist ] ninister diving in Lancashire, was said j ;o have parted with £3,540 good stock, j ’eceiving £6,887 shares in an insolvent • jompany, “City Gold Reefs and Dredg- j i ng -” . , 1 James Kingcaid Johnson (35), de- I scribed as a stockbroker, of Lewis Cres:ent, Brighton, was sentenced to niiif I I nonths’ imprisonment for obtaining a ! mortgage debenture of the fact value ol I j c!)00 by false pretences and with intenl I to defraud. ! Air Maxwell Turner, prosecuting, saic j that on February 6 Air Pomfret receiv sd a visit from a Air Robinson, wh( told a magnificent story of a company called “City Gold Reefs and Dredging. ’ ’ “The case for the prosecution,” saic Mr Turner, “is that Johnson is th' business, and that Mr Robinson anc others are, to use a slang expression, hi: ‘runners.’ ” Air Turner added that Air Pomfrei I parted with £3540 of good stock, and al that, he received was £6,887 worth ol shares in an insolvent company. Air Anthony Marlowe, for Johnson < told tlie magistrate (Sir Phene Neal; ■ that Johnson was the victim of Air Rob | inson, "Johnson registered the company, but | he played only a minor part in it,’ ■ added Mr Marlowe. “He has not received any of the money at all for him- f self. 1 “He received it and handed it over ‘ and got £6 a week; while the man be- j hind the swindle kept safely in the background.” j

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