TRICKERY ALLEGED.
MAN WHO LOST £25,000. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received May 18, 8.15 p.m. London, May 17. A first-class passenger named Charles Lawson, aged 45, a farmer, who was arrested at Southampton on board a liner from New York, was charged with obtaining £25,000 from David Hall by means of trickery. Hall met Macanally, another member of the gang, who claimed to be a West Australian squatter, during a voyage from Australia, in May, 1019. Hall was induced to go to Alfred Dean’s flat, where he lost £8704 to Lawson and Dean in twenty minutes, without any idea anything was wrong. Later he lost money in a betting deal. Hall gave evidence that he dealt in cattle and hordes in Australia and New Zealand. He came to England to buy cattle for the New Zealand Government. ~ , , Macanally, Dean and Dudley have already been sentenced to five years’ im-prisonment.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 May 1922, Page 5
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150TRICKERY ALLEGED. Taranaki Daily News, 19 May 1922, Page 5
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