ALLEGED FRAUD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1938, Page 7

ALLEGED FRAUD

PROMINENT MEN CHARGED IN SYDNEY ANTICIPATION OF LENGHTY HEARING GREAT ARRAY OF COUNSEL SYDNEY, July 4. The prosecution for alleged conspiracy involving three prominent Sydney men opened today at the Central Police Court before the stipendiary magistrate, Mr Atkinson. The accused are Eric Campbell, aged 45, solicitor, and former leader of the “New Guard,” a political organisation in New South Wales, Brigadier-Gener-al Herbert Wilcox Lloyd, aged 54, member for Mossman in the Legislative Assembly, and Richard Arthur Duesbury, accountant. The chargd is that between August 1933, and May, 1938, they conspired to cheat and defraud Dumenier Laboratories Ltd. of large sums of money and to defraud that company and other persons who should have been entitled to enforce their rights to obtain payment of unpaid capital of 19s a share on 4500 shares. The case is likely to occupy two weeks, and there is a formidable array of counsel. Mr J. W. Shand is appearing for the Crown. The evidence, according to Mr Shand, concerned the companies of which Campbell and Lloyd were directors and Duesbury was secretary—namely, Dumenier Laboratories, Ltd., and Australian Soaps, Ltd. Mr Shand explained that most of the evidence arose out of the hearing of a motion in the Equity Court on March 14, when the three'defendants applied to have their names removed from the list of contributors of Dumenier Laboratories, Ltd., then in liquidation.