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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3,
GREVILLE DIARY
STORM.
COURT SCANDALS AS
HISTORY.
AN ALLEGED FRAUD,
EDITION SOLD OUT.
Under the Larceny Act, the Charles Greville's last memories hearing of summonses which have have produced an echo of the his first volumes caused been postponed for several months storm took place at the Mansion House forty years ago, says a Home Police Court, London, recently, . paper of mail week. Criticism le Defendants were Sir Charles made of the publication of his Buckworth Herne Soame, Bart, gossiping indiscretions, but the of Sheen Cottage, Coalbrookdale, general opinion seems to be that Salop; Robert George Harley, of their publication as documents of 7 Wake Street, Kennington, and historic Interest was overdue, and Edmund Octavius Eaton, of High- that the causes which led to their land Hall, St. Leonards, all describ-partial suppression forty years ago
do not matter now. ed us company officials.
In the original summonses, the nume
of Edward Warden, of "Gloucester Crescent, Regent's Park, was joined with the defendants, but in the interval he has died.
The summonses charged the three defendants with having, be tween January 1924 and April 12, 1927, conspired together and with other persons, to cheat and defraud such persons us might receive pro- spectuses and pamphlets issued by the Fuel Power Gas & By-Pro ducts Corporation (Ltd.), and to obtain money from them by falecly pretending that certain reports ap- pearing in the prospectus and pamphlets were true.
The three dendants were defend-
ed by Mr. Velette and Mr. Shear, and the prosecution was directed by Mr. Percival Clarke, who out- lined the case, at length, saying all the charges were of conspiring to defraud people on the strength of statements in prospectuses and pamphlets in reference to the Chalt Fuel Power Gas & By-Pro- ducts Co. (Ltd.)
Counsel intimated that after heuring the facts, the Alderman might think that other charges should be preferred against Sir Charles Herne-Soame, and Colonel
E. O. Enton.
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The last-named, although not a director, had, in aiding and abet ting, become a party to the alleged fictitous statements.
Sir Almeric Fitzory, who held the saine office as Greville, that of Clerk to the Privy Council, for twenty-five years, gave as his view that the public would not be greatly excited over the scandals of a by gone age, and that there could be no question now of the properiety of publishing references to persons who,
with their immediate de- scendants, were dead.
Pitfalls,
"It is possible for an editor of a diary to make indiscreet use' of its entries," he said, "but after this lapse of time there are not the same pitfalls."
Sir George Arthur, Kitchenor's declared that the biographer, memoirs were published quite late enough.
"It is surely much better that we should have them printed now," he said, "when there are people alive who can challenge their ac- curacy if necessary.
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"I do not think the question of the propriety of publishing them arises at all. What matters the propriety of writing them, for if a thing is written it is the duty of publishers to publish what is interesting to the public. all there are A
After many
great things the diarist might chronicle which he omits."
Messrs. Heinemann, the pub- lishers of the volumes in this coun- The Company, counsel proceed-try-they have appeared also in ed, was registered on March 6 America-emphatically disclaimed 1914, and had a nominal capital of that. the book is published as £16,000, divided into 60,000 pre-scandalous chronicle. ference shares of 53. each and 20,000 founders' shares of 18 each.
Patent Fuel.
The objects of the Company was the exploitation of a new in- vention for a patent coal by means of the utilisation of chalk or other substances and generally to carry on the business of chemical manu- facturing agents.
In 1914, George Henry Frank- line of great engineering ex- perience, became acquainted with Mr. Hollis, who said he was 'con- nected with a company which wäs experimenting with a new patent fuel composed of chalk and cinders, which it was proposed to put on the market at an early date. Mr. Frankline was permitted to make
Interest,
"People might as well attack the publication of Pepy's Diary,'” a member of the firm said to a Daily Express representative. "Greville's Diary has a definite and legitimate historical interest. We have al- ways refused to publish scandalous memoirs which had no other in- terest.
"There has been some 'criticism of the manner in which "the en- tries formerly suppressed have now been edited.
"The original Greville" Diary was published in sixteen volumes, and there are only two ways in which the expurgations could be edited. If they were not to be grouped round different subjects,
a test of the fuel which was re- the only alternative would have been garded as very unsatisfactory. the republishing. of the complete In September of the same your,diary in chronological order and in Mr. Hollis again saw Mr. Frank- | eighteen volumes." line and invited him to make an- nther test with the fuck on a light railway, and after seeing Colonel Eaton this was carried out.
The fuel was tried on a light engine at Selsey. The engine was drawing three coaches, but the fuel was so unsatisfactory that great difficulty was experienced in get- ting the train to move owing to the lack of steam. The train would go down hill and run on the level, but, said Mr. Clarke, when required to go up hill, the engine stopped and eventually had to be sent home with real steam' coal.
. Mr. Frankline reported the re- sult of this experiment to Colonel Euton, and sent in his account.
first
It was learned that the edition of 1,000 copies was sold out yesterday, and that other edi tions were being prepared to meet demand which had already reach- ed 6,000.
by-product for building purposes and sold at 128. a ton. The ash was declared to be worth s. a ton if merely sold as a garden fertiliser.
There were still some foolish people who evidently believed, all that they any on in prospectus, sõid Mr. Clarke.
One reverend gentleman at New- port Pagnell purchased some of the shares, but in company with Mr. "A Great Discovery."
Frankline and Mr. Mackay, neither Counsel proceeded to point out of whom received their fees, the that when the report and the com- reverend gentleman did not get pany's prospectus came to be the dividend he expected, and it issued, it was clear to the directors was reasonable to assume that the thut the opinion expressed of the whole of the capital was swallowed fuel was not satisfactory for their up in expenses or directors' fees.
they were purpose, and tharged with making entirely
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When the Engine Stopped.
fictitious statements in connexion Amazing evidence of the test of with that report and prospectus the fuel on one of the south coast with the object of reporting light railway was given by John favourably to the sharehoulders or Robert Belcher, those who sought to invest in the company.
Witness was accompanied on the footplate by Mr. Frankline on be- half of the fuel company. The engine had three trucks behind it. We raised steam with the fuel, sald witness, but it took us a long time to do it. The test was over sixteen miles:
Mr. Frankline had made it clear in both of his reports that the fuel was unsatisfactory and had no commercial value.
Mr. Percival Clarke next ro- ferred to the printing to the order of the company of 75,000 circulars which were entitled, "Chalk-Coal Patent Fuel and By-Products. A was very badly clogged up with the great discovery-1920. Signed, J. H. Frankline."
Mr. Clarke-What was the effect of the fuel on the furnace?-It
residue from the fuel.
On the outward journey we stop- Mr. Frankline would say that he ped once about every three miles never made the reports attributed and a little over one miles on the to him nor made the statements homeward Journey in order to get subsequently contained in the pro-up steam.
Both Mr. Franklinc and I tried
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In them, Mr, Frankline was to clear the furnace but were un- stated to have written eulogistically successful and we got home with. of the product, extolling its some difficulty, but about three and quality and behaviour, and the a half miles from our destination chemical value of its nsh.
we had to drop the trucks and we and the engine just succeeded in The sight of three fire engines gines and rushed into the foyer On finding there was no fire ther scrapping home.
dashing up to a Haymarket re- of the restaurant, for there had expressed their regret for the in- William Macdonald Mackey, an staurant shortly after, 8.30 one been no outbreak of fire on the convenience caused by their visit analytical and consulting chemist night created great excitement premises. The manager of the and withdrey. The manager said. It went on to say that the re- of Leeds, gave evidence denying The reception staff of the restaurestaurant informed a reporter he could only regard it as a sultant ash mixed with water the statements which were attribut-rant gazed in astonishment as the that the firemen told him they scandalous honx
en had been summoned by telephone. Ifrighten the guests.. solidified and became a valuabló led to him in the prospecus.
firemen leaped from their
The fuel, the report declared, can give out a great heat, and is reduced to ash. It is equal to good
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