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THREE YEARS FOR TAX FRAUDS..
A SUM OF £13,000 INVOLVED.
DAIRYMAN'S · DECEIT.
Sentence of three years' penal servitude was passed by Mr. Już ties Swift at the Old Bailey, on Charlen Stephen Dilley, a Went ninster dairyman, who pleaded guilty to frauds on the Inland Revenue, involving sum of aver £13,000.
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Mr. Neville J. Laski, K.C., who, with Sir Percival Clarke, pics, cuted, snid that Dilley had carried on business as dairymau in Quron-street, Westminster, in the tate of William Dilley. The busi- Dess was founded by his father. The father, at his death, left a
life interent to his widow, the busi. nem at her donth to be divided equally among his four children. In 1916 Mrs. Dilley died, and do- fendent was appointed 'a trusted in ker place.
Notwithstanding her death, in- came-tax and excess profits ›duty returns contined to be made out in her name, under the prolenee that she was stiff living. The pre- tence was maintained until billey was challenged in 1927, when he
admitted that the widow had died
at Broadstairs. He said that he had concealed the fact of her death because he feared the position re
"BEWARE Barding the death dutlen
Ås a matter of fiet, said Laski, the death duties amounted ultimately to less than £100, and that was clearly only one element in the fraud.
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GUERIN ON TRIÁL AT
OLD BAILEY.
QUESTIONS ABOUT CHICAGO MAY AND DEVIL'S ISLAND.
ADMIRAL BYRD'S FOX TERRIER.
KAIPING
IGLOO IS DEAD.
SHARED HIS MASTER'S HARDSHIPS,
Boston.-Igloo, Admiral Byrd's an indiet-faithful friend, is dend.
Edward Guerir, aged 71, appens- cd before the Common · Serjeant (Sir Henry Dickens, K.C.) at the Old Bailey charged on ment containing five counts with receiving a
book of travellers' cheques, and uttering two of the cheques,
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He was defended by Mr. Frederick Levy,
Sir Percival Clarke, who pro sdcuted, said that the book of cheques which Guerin was charged with receiving had been issued in Ireland to Mrs. Margaret White. She was at London hotel on
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March 12, having come from Ireland to go abroad, and was sitting in the lounge,when she found that her bag containing the cheque book had
gone.
Detective-Sergeant Wheeler said' that when Guerin was arrested he
said:
My conscience is clear. I know nothing about it. I am in - noceat. You know I do not mix
with the gangs.
Devil's Island.
He was a little white fox terrier, with a brown right, ear and a quizzical face. His passing enlled the great explorer home to Boston from a lecture tour in the Middle West and South.
Civilisation did not agree with Igloo. He had lived so much of is six years of life in cold and hard-
ship and danger, the inseparable companion of his master. days at Spitzbergen when Byrd He was a puppy in those perilans flew over the North Pole. He was bitter struggle in the Antarctic. o fully grown dog during the long,
Igloo was presented to Byrd six years ago by an admirer in Wash of Spitzbergen, while his master was ington. He grew up in the wastes making history in his nerial con- quest of the North Pole.
Petted by a President.
He shared with his master the adulation of civilised crowds. He was petted by: President Coolidge and a host of other famous men and women,
Pole, Igloo went .ted.
When Byrd went to the South grew a coat which observers said There he was the thickest and warmest ever worn by a fox terrier.
Igloo lived dangerously among the powerful sled dogs. His body bore the sears of frequent clashes with the big "buskies."
Mr. Levy: Did he figure in an incident in which a woman called Chiengo Mar, was concerned when when Byrd went on a lecture tour. Igloo 'was left at home in Boston someone attempted to shoot himness enme, and three doctors Chicago May was present when he
worked to save him. His master,
was shot at.
A person so well known to the
nearly 1,000 miles away, heard of his desperate plight and cancelled con tracts and engagements,
But Byrd was too late. While he
plane Igloo died.
Mr.public would not be about the West rushed to Chicago to charter an air.
mitted a crime?—I do not know. End a great deal if he had com-
He has recently written his aulo- biography 7-Yes.
The Common Serjeast: What is the materiality of this?
195 Repaid to Dead Woman. In one case 205 was repaid to the mother, who had died seven Mr. Levy: Be reys "I ara not years before. Dilley signed her the person who committed thin name as an endorsement, and pass. | offence. I am the Insa person who ed the amount into the bank.
would commit a crime of this nature by reason of the fact that my name is a household word."
Guerin from the dock interposed "And that officer knows it, too."
Detective-Sergt.. Wheeler, reply- ing to Mr. Levy, said that in 1901 or 1005 Guerin escaped from Devil's
A second find was that he told the Rovenne authorities that no proper accounts of the business had been prepared, whereas every half. year from 1908 a firm of account. ants had made out accounts. He had also umitted to show income from his own investments, these Island to South America, and investments for the period under review amounting to £5.000.
In all he had underpaid income- tax to the extent of £4,532, spread.p over fifteen years from 1912-13, and exger profits daly to the extent of „£8,213, spread over five years from 1916, making a total of £13,105,
Mr. Laski added thar in August, 1920, Dilley paid £10,000 ns resti- Lution, and this aum had been place
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thence to Chicago. Since then be had been Eving for most of the time in England,
Missing Fingers. · Guerin, in the witness-box, em- phatically declared that he knew nothing about the charges.
Guerin was asked by his counsel to display his left hand to the jury, and it was then noticed that the
ed on deposit for the Government first and second Angers were miss- pending a settlement of the figures.ing.
Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett, K.C. (defending,
with Mr. G. D.
Roberts), said that the returns were not actually made by Dilley. Th
Sir Henry said that, as he un- 1024 Dilley realised that he must derstood that statement, it make true returns, and he fraudulent taxpayer by his own gradually began to fake pro- volition made full and frank con- per returns, In 1026 hofession before inquiries were made, ecasted his solicito18, and was criminal proceedings would not be adyind that he must make a com plete statement of the facts. Fram that time true accounts were given to 'the authorities..
In August, 1920, £10,000 was paid by him on account of any amount which might be shown to
taken by the authorities, but the matter would be dealt with by way af penalty and fine.
Coung added that defendant in January, 1930, had offered to pay another £8,000 in addition to the £10,000 he had already paid as re-
Had he made full constitution. bo due. fession earlier he would probably- not have been prosecuted.
Confession and Prosecution, Mr. Justice Swift: Can aman any, "I have got £95. by forgery, and you cannot prosecute me 1"
Sir Henry, teplied that he un derstood Viscount Brentford stat
WHAT THE GENERAL SAID.
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Philadelphia.-What the goant to the General should not be told in turn to evilian cars, according to wireless censors who abruptly cut off a speech by Genera Smedley Butler at an artillery offi cers' dinner in Philadelphia
General Butler, who is America's fiercest soldier, was recouuting with Fort Rivier, in Hayti, and he de vivid eloquence how he captured" scribed how, while he was summon. sergeant said, "Hell! I'll go fret." ing his courage for the attnek, a
The maunger of the radio station heard the General's quotation of this expletive, nearly fainted. im mediately stopped the breadcust and announced to listeners that he had eut General Butler off for us ing profane and indecent language,
A Storm.
dead microphone, General Butler Finding he was orating into a and a number of friends, includ ing several judges, left the ban- quet and stormed into the wire. less station, demanding an apology. It is and thero was a scene of great indignation, but the General was persuaded to return to the ban- quet
The wireless station announced that he would never be allowed on
is Inngange. the air again if he did not miend.
The comedy has been heightened apology from the Unilian Govern by General Butler denunding an ment because its Minister at Wn shington was reported as saying ever existed and that the General's "that no such place as Fort Riviere heroism was therefore imaginary, The Minister to-day denied this imputation, but insinuated that General Butler's victory was gain. ed ever men without adequate still acuta. arme. The diplomatic tension is
Washington recently apologised to Signor Mussolini for an attack made upón him by Ganeral Butter.
THE SATRAP'S HOARD.
Mr. Justice Swift, passing. sen- tent, said that Ditley-land pleaded. guilty to. Borica of frauds of the gravest, possible character.
"For a period of fifteen years HUNT FOR TREASURE BURIED you have been robbing your fellow.
BY ALI THE LION 100 citizens by anaking false income.
YEARS AGO.
tax returns, and in order to cover
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GIRL MAULED IN SCHOOL
OLASSROOM.
SHIP OF TRAGEDY.
SEVEN DEATHS IN TEN YEAIS.
A remarkable toll of death was A young lion brought into a revealed in an appeal to the House school classroom at Cincinnati by a of Lords arising out of a dispute lecturer on natural history sprang concerning a cargo of flax and tow at a seven-year-old girl, Vivianwhich, in 1910, was consigned to Leichner, and mauled her 20 England from Russia and requisi badly that she is in hospital in a tinned by the War Office. crition) state
The girl went into the room from another class, and, seeing the lion ed the law in the House of Com-up what you were doing, commit Athens. Following the discovery. and other animals became frighten monsin July, 1921, as follows ting forgery and jelling dies of of old documents containing, clues ed. A woman trainer assured her The question of fraud evasion the most serious character about the to the existence of treasure said to that they were harmless, but when in connection with direct taxation, continued existence of your dead is of great importance. There is mother.
have belonged to the famous Ali
the Lion, Satrap of Janina, just she drew nearer the lion leapt on
over 100 years ago, attempts are her find tore her with its claws. no desire that fraudulent tarpay. “It was tha duty of these respon which up till now has been regarded strickon, and while the trainer and being made to locnto the board The whole class became panic. ers should be deterred by fear of sible for advising the Government as legendary. criminal proceedings from making in this matter to see that you were ed a tunnel constructed to store the its victim, other pupila Ded scream- Preliminary doggings have revonl-lecturer tried to dreg the lion from opontaneous libeloure of their brought to trial for your delinquen-treasure. Tho skeleton of nine misdeeds and appropriate pecuni-
Ing. vies. It would have been wrong it workmen, engaged by Ali Pasha to build it, and whom he killed so that the Board of Inland Revenue had he might keep the secret for hin- (Continued at foot of next colum) failed: to prosecute you."
| self, have....aled' been. found.
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the child from the lion's grasp, and. A policeman oventually snatched lessood the animal-
The head of the firm of Scottish shipbrokers' agente for the ship in which the cargo was consigned is dead.
Another member of the Arm, the chief clerk, and the principal typist have also died, and no one who had direct contact with the negotiations survives,
is dead, the Russian who attended A War Office official who had charge of requisitioning the cargo
to the mattor In Russia is dead, and the Russian firm's agent in Scotland is also dead..
The action was not begun until the and of 1927, practically ten years after the transaction out of which the dispute arose.
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