ALLEGED FRAUD.
FLOTATION OF A COMPANY. By Telegraph.—Press Asan.—Copyright. Received Jan. 27, 5.5 p.m. London, Jan. 26. Ernest Terah Hooley, Thomas Fletcher (ex-Mayor of Derby), John Angus, Macdonald (ex-Mayor of Ilkeston), Thomas Llewellyn Demery (Hooley’s secretary), William Alfred Wallis (solicitor), and Bertrand Breakspear (Hooley's clerk), are bei.ig prosecuted at Bow Street charged with conspiracy to defraud in connection with the flotation of the Jubilee Cotton Mills, Ltd, Oldham. The prosecution alleged that Demery induced Lewis, a wealthy young Cardiff shipowner, to invest £60,000 by false statements. Lewis did not know Hooley’s connection with the project, the latter studiously keeping in the back-ground.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1922, Page 4
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104ALLEGED FRAUD. Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1922, Page 4
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