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TREASURE SHIP WITH £5,000,000.
AMERICAN'S ALLEGED.
chant.
: FRAUD...
SATURDAY. AUGUST 10, 1929.
MR. MEAD “VERY
EMBARRASSED.”
"APPALLING" RULING ABOUT
FIRST OFFENDERS.
Edward Emile Jochen, aged 46, Gwen Smith, aged 21, employed | a builders' contraetor, in Anteri-jas a model in a wholesale textile enn citizen staying at the establishment in St. Paul's Church-f Hotel Metropole, Northumberland-yard, E.C., pleaded guilty at Marl- avenue, W.C., was charged on re-borough-street to stealing a jumper nund at Bow-street recently with suit, valued at £6 68, from the obtaining $1,000 by false pre-ingsworth, Oxford-street, W. When shop of Messrs. Bourne and Holl- tences from Marie Auguste Jac-site was arrested she had no dreas ques Penellier, a bullion mer-underneath her cont.
The girl's father, a linen buyer, At the previous hearing it, was living at Westcliff-on-Sea, said that stated that Jochen claimed to his daughter wore a dress to work, have control of a treasure hip took it off while she was at work, laden with silver valued at £6, and resumed it when she left at 000,000, which he could bring into night. Only once had she arrived a British port, The prosecution home without a dresa, alleged it was a mythical galleon) and that no such eargo existed,
Mr. Robert Doyle, a company secretary of Great Windchester-speaker in the Methodist Church The father replied that as a lay street. B.C., said Jochen told him his daughter and had a religious he had power to sell 49,000,000oz. bringing up, but much to his and of silver for the heirs of the late his wife's regret she did not at- President Obregon. of Mexico. tend any place of worship. "This He undertook to try to find a pur-case has overwhelmed us." he said, chaser.
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Mr. Roome, prosecuting; Dia Jochen give you the name of the ship or the port of destination?--- I understood from him it was son 30 miles from Bremerhaven, auuth of Heligoland, in the North Sea, The information gave me was of such a nature that I believed in the existence of this ship. I have such a belief now,
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Mr. Mend, the magistrate, asked if the girl had had any religious training?
of
and we cannot understand her do-
fog such a thing. It has quite broken my wife up."
Mr. Mead: Everyone who is a father sympathises with you, but it places me in a very embarrass- ing position. We get two or three of these cases every day. The ap- palling and deplorable thing is that persone in high positions announce from the housetops that no young
Mr. Philip Aveling Wilkins, senior partner in the firm Messrs. Sharpe and Wilkins, bul-i tion brokers, Great Winchester-Į street. E.C.; suld Jochen told him; that the silver was from Mexico and that it was the property of various presidents. He obtained ja bid, and at Juchen's request. found a dock at London Brie from which the silver could be carted to his warehonge,
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SEQUEL TO MOTOR ACCIDENT.
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Los Angeles, July 31. A preliminary hearing was held Mr. Penellier, ole partner in today in the case in which Mrs. Messrs. 1. Penellier and Co., Bul- Alexander Pantages was charged lion dealers, of Gray's Inn-road, with second degree murder as a W... said Jachen told him that result of the death of a Japanese the silver belonged to the Inte named J. R. Okonoto under the President Obregon who had been wheels of her automobile.' annesing it for 20 years. Da Harry Lederdrink, who testified May he went to the Hotel that the Pantages ear was being Metropole and remained with driven at high speed at the time Jochen and Judge Schofield, an of the neefdent, told the American judge, for 12 hours, Athat someone had telephoned to contract Was drawn up with him threatening his life. blanks left for the name of the Relatives of the Japanese have ship, the flag she was flying, and sued Mrs. Pantages for $243,000, the Hike,
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