MEAT FRAUD CASE.
RESULT OF TRIAL.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received April 9, 5.5 p.m. London. April 8.
After the twenty-sixth day of the trial, the jury found Fletcher (exMayor of Derby) and Breakspear (Hooley’s clerk) not guilty and the others guilty. Hooley was sentenced to three years in the general division; McDonald was bound over; Wallis received ten months and Demery a year, both in the second division. Hooley is appealing.
Ernest Torah Hooley, Thomas Fletcher (ex-Mayor of Derby), John Angus MacDonald (ex-Mayor of Ilkeston), Thomas Llewellyn Demery (Hooley’s secretary), William Alfred Wallis (solicitor), Bertrand Breakspear (Hooley’s clerk), are being prosecuted at Bow Street charged with conspiracy to defraud in connection with the flotation of the Jubilee Cotton Mills, Ltd., of 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 background.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1922, Page 5
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156MEAT FRAUD CASE. Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1922, Page 5
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