ALLEGED EXTENSIVE FRAUDS. EVIDENCE OF CLOTH DEALS. Further evidence in the case in which it has been stated that the sum of £80,000 is involved was heard at the London Guildhall Police Court yesterday. Samuel Brown, 57, a native of Poland, described as a commission agent, appeared on remand charged with obtaining various quantities of goods by false pretences from Messrs. Haskett, Smith, and Co., of Manchester, Messrs. G. T. Hawkins, Ltd., of Northampton, from Messrs. Thomas Singlehurst, of Northampton, and others. Frederick John Bagh Woodward, of Granby Road, Manchester, said that in August, 1922, when he was sole proprietor of the Condor Manufacturing Company, of Joiner Street. Manchester, Brown called and asked if his firm could make a certain pattern of cloth, as he wished to buy two hundred pieces. Brown said that he was J. Littman, jun., of Paper Street, London. Witness explained that the cloth was confined to one man for the whole of London, and Brown said that he wanted it, for shipment to South Africa. The goods were supplied. The value of them was ahout £500, and they had never been paid for... [continues]
