Please wait. Contacting image service... loading

Article text

Four Before Court
In the past two days four
people—a former woman
ferry pilot, a baronet who
was a. squadron-leader in the
KAF. a London woman and
an Ealing man—have been fined
Ten haying broken the "Defence
Finance Regulations, and in each
case intrator's, .jiame has been
mentioned.
Sir Hamilton Hulse pleaded
guilty at Fordingbridge Court.
Hampshire, today to having unlaw
fully bought 24.000 francs from In
trator in Monte Carlo in August.
1946. He was fined £65.
The prosecutor said be was satis
fied that Hulse did not participate
in Intrator's transactions. Intrator
bad been a useful aid to many
people who had run short of cash
at Monte, Carlo and elsewhere.
Mrs. Edna Clayton, who was fined
£100 at Bow Street Court yesterday.
cashed a cheque for £50 in Monte
Carlo.
A former Wimbledon doubles
champion, a Frenchman named
Vladimir Landau, was mentioned
in the case against Mrs. Clayton.
The prosecutor said that Mrs.
Clayton was invited by a woman
friend to a holiday hi Monte Carlo.
She had already spent £74 of the
f75 she was allowed to take out of
Britain for one year, and the
friend offered to share her own
£75. But Monte Carlo was expen
sive, a motor trip home did not
materialise, and they had not
booked a return passage.
The friend Introduced Mrs. Clay
ton to Landau, who was secretary
of the Monte Carlo Tennis Club.
He offered/fo-lend her money. Mrs.
Clayton gave him a post-dated
cheque for £50. and received francs
at the rate of 550 to the pound, in
stead of the official race of 480,
which, according to the prosecu
tion, "might nave put Mrs. Clayton
on her guard."
The cheque was handed to Max
Intrator, who cashed it in Britain.
The third case, heard in Bow
street today, was that in which
Mis. MatniMe Collins. living in the
West End, was fined £200 on s
similar charge.
The prosecutor said that she re
ceived 60,000 francs from Intrator
in Paris in exchange for a cheque
for £100. Mrs. collins's cheque had
been paid into Intrator's account
in London, from which large
balances were regularly transferred
to bis account hi Cairo.
''Mrs. Collins was a very small
minnow." said the defending coun
sel.
The fourth case was that of
Frank Cannell, of Ealing. who. was
fined £230 on two rfmijpi- charges.
His cheque for £100 also went into
Intrator's London account.
$