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CAREER OF A CROOK, ENEVER DICK TURPIN UP TO DATE.
الله
In his closing speech for the pro- secution in the case of Edwin Al- exander Enever and others, Mr. Travers Humphreys remarked that in the present day rogues who set out to rob the public discard the simple plan of the old highwaymen and take advantage of the facilities of the Companios Act. This is certainly true, says Truth. The up-to-date Dick Turpin is a fraud- ulent promoter-or, as the Ameri cans call him, financial faker-pho secures his plunder by such an adroit misuse of the law that he can rarely be brought to book in a criminal court. Hardly a week passes without à reference in: Truth to companies which are palpable ramps, but nevertheless) ramps which it is virtually impossi ble to squelch. A striking illustra tion of this is furnished by the career of the man Enever which I related at length in an article last September entitled The Career of a Crook." It is true that justice! has now overtaken him, but, as I showed, he had a long run as a swindler. He was engaged in company-mongering in India until 1910, when-India having become too hot for his health--he came to London. His doings in India had been reported to he, and very soon I revealed the fact that he was carrying on a similar game here. He promoted I know not how many joint-stock swindles against which ay readers at any fate were duly cautioned.
Enever did not usually publish prospectuses or send out circulars promiscuously. He caught his victims through veiled advertise- defeated Taikoo No. 1 in the Lawnments and in other more or less Bowls League by three points, indirect ways-particularly by Taikoo No. 2 defeated Kowloon
picking up Dock, Kowloon Bowling Green were victorious against the K.C.C., while the Civil Service went down Details before Craigengower. follow :—
Played on the K.B.G.C. ground, the home team winning by 24 points.
K.B.G.C. Kynoch
K.B.G C. V. K.C.C.
K.C.C.
Davis
Davidson Gibson
acjuaintantces in hotel lounges and elsewhere. He is an adventurer with a persuasive | manner and a plausible tongue-at least so I infer from the success with which he tricked so many persons. Ladies found him irresist!- ble, and a number parted with all their money for worthless shares, one widow being thus relieved in a few months of no less than £18,000. In civil actions judgment after judg iment was given against him on the ground of fraudulent mis-repre-
Crawford (S) 28 Stevens (S) 13 sentations, but Enever cared noth-
Whibley
Hail
Barr
Farrel! Guy
Abraham Tacchi Overz
ing for the judgments of civill courts, nor was he worried when he was adjudicated a bankrupt-us
Edwards (S) 25 Pile (S) 13 he was in 1914 and again in 1918
MacFarlane
Hamilton
Harvey
Nicholls
.....Cornley
Hyde
Like more eminent and 1920. financial crooks, such as Bottomley and Hooley, he knew how to cheat
Russell (S) 14 McMurtrie(S)17 his creditors and live in luxury as
an undischarged bankrupt.
Total 67
1
Total 43
C.S.C.C. v. CRAIGENGOWER CC.
Played on Civil Service ground, the visitors winning by 33 points.
C.S.C.C.
CRAIGENGOWER. Hall
Green Seuza MacFarlane
Cullip Sullivan Bill (5) it Bradbury (S) 27
Rose Greensett
Murphy
Vergette
F. Allan
Forbes
Next to impressionable women, I believe that Enever discovered his easiest prey among retired officers innocent of business ex- perience. They were the chief sufferers by the fraud of which he has now been convicted, and in nearly every instance they were induced to subscribe for shares- the amounts ranging from £500.to £5,000-by the offer of salaried jobs. Some mining concessions in China formed 'a sort of basis for
A. B. Allan (S) 14 Greener (S) 24 the frauds, which were worked
Oswick
Rudd
Keegan
Pathyjohns (S) 16
Alves
Ismail
4
through the agency of companies
of Enever's called Humphrey and Denman, Ltd., the Anglo-Chinese (S) 23 Trust and Mercantile Corporation, Allan Ltd..
Alexander and 74 and Co, Ltd. the last named being a bogus bank. These con- | cerns and others too numerous to mention were all located in a hand- somely furnished establishment or
Omar Basa
Total 41 Total
KOWLOON DOCK R.C. V. TAIKOO NO. 2.
Played at Kowloon Dock, the visitors winning by 8 points. KOWLOON DOCK
McKelvie,
Keith
Gourlay.
Gray.
Atkinson.
J. Brown.
Puncheon.
Gow.
Johnston.
Duncan. Hedley.
TAIKOO NO.
2
Laing
O'Brien Morrison.
(S) 19 MacLachlan.
McLeod.
Holland. Thompson. (S) 14 Drumniond.
Dinnen. Amery,
·
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enjoyed his lavish hospitality
overhead. In these particular
frauds he was assisted by one W.
by
J. Sloan. Lapsley, (S) 18 Wallace (S) 20 lot
Total
of
quite
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(S) 16 H. Bennett, a previously convicted and in the 'subsequent prosecution
Mr. Derbishire asked the First swindler, who has now again been Mr. Archibald M. G. Grant of
The riddles of to-day, as pro- sent to prison for fifteen months. Hankow was named as the vendor Another accomplice was a young to another company of the mining pounded by Dr. Alington, Head-Lord of the Admiralty in the House fellow named Leslie E. Haynes, concessions which Humphrey and
Workers Education Association (S) 23 who on his own account launched Denman agreed to take over from Warter of Eton, who told the of Commons what the total cost to were Kas been, what ita annually recur last year a ramp styled the Sino- that company. Some time ago British Trade Association, where Messrs. C. and M. Turner, solicie that he found things were not get date of the Hongkong naval base
ators, wrote on behalf of Mr. Grant, ting easier to understand, he bamboozled
and asking me to explain that their being eagerly discussed. He said rent expenditure on Navy account business firms some public mea. Haynes has client first met Enever when the modern poetry was almost beyond is to-day, and what military estab lishment is necessary for its protoc Mr. Alfred Noyes, the poet, tion and the best of it per annum? jail for six months, agreement with the company in his comprehension. 591 gone 10
did Dot Commander Eyres Mousell: The Enever, as the moving spirit in the question was negotiated, but that frauds, has not been too severely he never authorised the publication said that while be Played at Taikoo, the Police Punished with three years' penal of his name as a director (or in agree that modern poetry was en total cost to date of the capital any other capacity) of any comtirely beyond comprehension, there expenditure incurred on works, was a section that was abeor non-buildings and machinery out of |pany promoted by Enever. There is no doubt that company Mr. W. R. Mousley, who has just eonse; it had gone absolutely mad Navy Votes and the Naval Works frauds of this type have increased, and ought to be stopped. How to returned from Lodio, informs me and Bolaboriet. These poete," Acta during the past eighty-one stop them is the question. This that he was never a director of he said "claim that they are years is $3,688,367. The aurnal (S) 14 appeared to be in its essential facts Alexander, Allan and Co., Limited, searching for something new, but recurrent expenditure is about a plain case of swindling by En-one of Enever's above-mentioned they only find what they call now £280,000. In regard to the last part ever, but a dexterous and cunning companies. Enever frequently by turning nature upside down, and of the question, particulars of the military garrison are given on page swindler who operates through made an unauthorised use of names that is what one objects to."
Mr. Galloway Kyle, of the Poe-28 of the Army Estimates. The 27 Joint-stock companies can produce in lats of directors which he filed
Total 51
TAIKOO NO. I v. POLICE,
winning by three points.
TAIKOO NO. I
Grimes
Matthews'
Muirhead
POLICE R.C. Taylor D. Clark Robertson
Ferguson (S) 19 J. Clark
Weir
Whyte Russell
Knight Nicoll Mair
Harrison (S) 12 Gerrard (S)
J. Sloan
Lillicrop Young. Wotherspoon Grimmitt
Grant Shepherd Ogg
(S) 21
Total 52
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a tangle oftechnical difficulties, and at Somerset House. As I stated on try Society, agrood there was a great estimated cost on the Army Vote for the trial of this seemingly plain March 28, Mr. Mousley is a director deal of poetry written that might the year 1023-24, including non- County case at the Old Bailey occupied of the Easter Metal Co., Limited, be described as incomprehensible, effective chargée, is £740,000, to nine days. Of course, it is easy to which has been formed in India to but everyone could understand men wards which contribution esti (S) 14 say that the law should be amend take over the Indian right off like Noyes, Watson and Kipling, matod at £148,000 will be received st, but it is by no means easy to Enever concern styled the Golcon- "It is America," said Mr. Kyle, from the Colonial Government. The Total $5 make practical suggestions for the da Metal Co. Mr. Mousley says
prevention of fraud. which are not there is no reason why the Indian "that has gone mad on the other hon. Member, will understand that open to the objection that they will company should not turn out a kind of stuff, and those who write the military gainion is necessary hamper the honest use of the Com- commercial success. I cat only it are generally more talked about for the protection of the Colony, which would require protection say that for the sake of the share than read." T
Dr. Alington (also remarked that whether there was a naval base I wish to take this opportunity of holders. I hope it will do so,
dern hit as a whole was not there or not, easy to understand.” disclaiming the soft impeachment!
MPECAB. W. Nevinson, the artist, mid that it was simply.
LEAGUE TABLE.
panies Act.
Kowloon
KBGC
P. W. L. PTS.
6 Dock R.C.
5. I Taikoo No. 2.44 0
5.32.
of the Financial Times that Truth
10
Police RC.
Taikoo No.1
Craigengower
C.C
KC.C. Civil S.C.C.
A tray of rings valued at about
Is the Press." During the trial-
"The Doctors may paribe whatever witnesses mentioned articles in 500 was stolen from a jeweller's Truth from which they first learned shop in Bond Street, London. A question of the fuse of eyes. that they were being defrauded well-dressed man asked to be shown ignorant man who uses he amount of liquor they think ht, the Doubtless in order to spare my some rings. He left, without makeyos, he added; is just as likely Federal Court in the diskiak of New blushes the Financial Times care tag any purchase. Afterwards it to be good judge of a modern York has declared, despite the pro- fully kept Truth out of its reports, was found that one of the pads of picture, sa an educated man who visions of the Prohibition Enforce-
ment laws to the contrary. does not nee the eyes. and in one passage substituted the rings was roissing, on me to d
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CHAMPIONSHIP TABLE.
(up to June 9.)
Played
IWENI OVAA, O. Won
Lost
Points.
Obtained
Percentage
Ist Inns
Won
0 40
30 22 73.33'. 35 25 71.42 1:50
34 68.00
30 40
2:
34 85.00
26 65.00
17 56,66 15 $50.00 30 14 46.66 25 10 40.00 ·
30 14 35.00
9 30.00
10.25.00
14.28 12.50