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...investigated, and grand juries have probed. Nine months ago Colonel Alexander Elliot Williams, onetime Assistant to the Quartermaster General, was cashiered for accepting a "loan" from a salesman on a large automobile contract (TIME, June 3). Two months ago Colonel Williams and the Silvermans were indicted for conspiracy to defraud the Government in connection with the same contract...
...just three officers, directors and stockholders of Townsend Old Age Revolving Pensions Ltd.: Dr. Francis E. Townsend, Secretary-Treasurer Clements and Walter L. Townsend, a brother of Dr. Townsend. The ostensible purpose of the House investigation is to determine whether Messrs. Townsend & Clements might be using the mails to defraud their followers, whether any of their income is being spent in political campaigns in violation of the Corrupt Practices...
Last November 41 defendants went on trial in Chicago for using the mails to defraud 70,000 Midwesterners out of $1,350,000 (TIME, Dec. 2). The dupes were supposed to divide a fabulous estate left by Sir Francis Drake, 16th Century English sea rover. Wholesale exonerations had so reduced the ranks of the accused that last week only eight of those originally indicted remained in court to hear sentences passed against them. Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan began by imposing five years imprisonment on Canfield Hartzell. Hartzell's brother Oscar had started out as a "Drake Estate" sucker...
Because of the intense loyalty and faith the duped give the dupers, the Government has had a hard time running the fraud to earth. Two years ago at Sioux City, Iowa, Oscar Merrill Hartzell was convicted of using the mails to defraud Drakesters, was given ten years in Leavenworth. Hartzell started out as an Iowa farmer as dimwitted as the rest of the Drake Estate "contributors." After he had put up $6,000 of his mother's money, he made a trip to England in 1922 to see how it was being spent. There he promptly switched from...
...Grace had signed assurances to the pawnbrokers that he possessed the jewels pawned, which he did not possess. Was that not fraud? Last week when Manchester's case reached the Court of Criminal Appeal, it was loftily held by Their Lordships that there had been no "intent to defraud" and therefore no fraud by Manchester because His Grace had been advised by lawyers that he did possess the jewels. In quashing the jail sentence, England's Lord Chief Justice said that the Duke of Manchester "seemed to have acted in good faith...