Newfoundland Bank Case: Arrest of Leading Politicians: (Through Reuter’s Agency): St. John’s Saturday: Warrants were issued today by Judge Conroy for the arrests of Sir Robert Thorburn, K.C.M.G., a former Prime Minister, and member of the Legislative Council, the Hon. A. W. Harvey, Minister without portfolio in the present Cabinet, Mr. Donnelly, Receiver General in the last Cabinet, and Mr. Grieve, another leading politician, all being directors of the insolvent Union Bank as well as of Mr. Pinsent, manager of the Bank. They are charged with issuing false balance-sheets in 1893 and 1894 on the affairs of the Bank, and thereby inducing the plaintiffs and others to become customers, creditors, or shareholders, whereby they were defrauded of large sums of money. …
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GRO1157 Hennock: Charles Speare Pinsent: 1838 – 1914