THE GREEN HARP CASE.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 252, 30 July 1872, Page 3

THE GREEN HARP CASE.

The eight person charged with conspiracy to defraud, were again brought up on Saturday, before T. Beckham, Esq. Mr Jo) - , before the Court commenced, asked that the bail money be returned, which was done. Mr Rees then continued his cross-examination of Mr Davies. Un to the 27th June I purchased a number of shares for Howe ; they were bought by bis order at five guineas each. I purcased 5 shares for O’Reilly on 26th June, at £6 each. The company’s register shows that Howe transferred about 200 shares in. February and March. A fair number of shares might have been sold by the original shareholders in February and March, at the ruling prices. Snowden purchased shares prior to April at £lO. I sold a portion of Moran’s shares, about 150, in April and May, at £7. I showed the letter (marked C Juno 20) to Thomas Sheehan from Sheehy. At that time I was employed as a broker, selling for Sheehan. I think Sheehan withdrew the shares prior to me showing the letter. I think he came into the office and withdrew the shares, and I then showed him the letter. I saw some small specimens at the mine that would run as much as Sheehy represented in his letters. The shaft of the mine was cleared of water lately, to enable a surveyor to get down and report. The shares rose from 10s to 30s prior to the report being received, and then fell back to 20s, at which price they now stand, with call paid. Keir was origiually registered for 500 shares, and sold them from September 7, 1871, to March, all but a small lot. On the 27th of March Keir transferred to Ferguson, 200 shares in consideration of Is. Ferguson sold 50 shares to F. A. Cooper, on the 27th of March, in consideration of £375, at the rate of £7 10s per share. March 28, to Michael Hartnett, three shares at £27, being £9 per share. About that time shares sold at £lo.—Reexamined by Mr Hesketh : I went down to the mine in consequence of the amalgam not being hard-squeezed. Another reason was in consequence of something Mr Cazaly stated. The first thing that made the shares come down was the report in reference to the quantity of amalgam, which appeared in the Cross on the 27th of June. About that time shares went doum to about £5. The alarm was checked by the contradiction of the report by Howe and Captain Thomas. They fell below £5 before the contradiction, and then tlmy rose to £5 ss, and there remained for a short time. I sold 10 shares from Mr Fond at £6 10s, on June 22nd, to Smith and Walker. On June 22nd, O’Reilly sold 10 shares to Dacre for £67 10s, through Mr Garland, as broker. Same date, five shares, consideration £35, £7 per share. The shares which stood in Pond’s name were Sheehan’s. Pond’s name was put there for convenience. A. G. Manning and H. L. Smith appear to have transferred to Snowden ; I bought Snow’d, ti’s. H. L. Smith is a lad about 16 years of age. He appears to have got his shnr s from Ferguson. Ferguson got 700 from K ir transferred on March 27th. Moran did transfer 400 shares to Hull, for a loan of £4OO to the the company, on the 17th June, 1872. Some of the other defendants seem to have transferred to Moran about 450 shares, viz., O’Reilley gave 51 shares, Howe 68. Cummins 64, Walsh 94, Sheehan 89, Gleeson 93. Hull held the shares until early in July, when O’Reilly paid him the £4OO and interest. Hull transferred to Moran and Moran transferred 319 of thorn to O’Reilly, retaining 81. It does not appear that O’Reilley divided these shares between the other defendants. The bulk of the 219 shares were thus divided : 37 to J. F. Clarke, 10 to Peter Carter, 200 to John Cosgrave, and a portion to F. Crippen. O’Reilly signed the transfers. [ Transfers handed in.] The payment from O’Reilly to Hull went through my hands—Mr Brookfield, on behalf of the Government, made an application that all the transfers produced in the Green Harp case he impounded until an answer to the report sent to the Government was received, as from what had transpired during the hearing of the case, gross frauds had been perpetrated on the Government. —An order to that effect was accordingly made.—The Court then adjourned until Monday.— Herald,