BIG BUSINESS FRAUD
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LONDON, June 11. A Spanish lady resident in Paris, named Debeistgin, obtained judgment against Frank Lacroix Gardner, : company promoter, lately in London, for £827,000.- Sir Edward Carson stated that plaintiff’s secretary and defendant conspired to gradually procure plaintiff’s money on pretence of investing it on the basis of division of profits between • herself and Gardner. She advanced Gardner £225,359 cash, also £577.078 worth of securities. It was alleged that, besides entering smaller sums than received, defendant dre-.y dividends belonging to bet', making the total £983,758. She received nothing in return. Mr. Rufus Isaacs stated that as his client the defendant, liacl not appeared, and lie was unable "to call him as a witness, lie consented to an adjudication, which Mr. Justice Cliaiinell entered with costs.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2105, 13 June 1907, Page 1
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132BIG BUSINESS FRAUD Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2105, 13 June 1907, Page 1
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