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Show FRAUD IS CHARGED. Counsel for Intorvenov in Hopper-Dunsmuir Hopper-Dunsmuir Will Is Bitter. VICTORIA, B. C March 23. In the Hopper-Dunsmuir will case, befot'o tho Victoria court today. Sir Charles Tuppcr, counsel for tho lntervonor, Mrs. John Dunsmulr, mother of tho defendant, attacked at-tacked James Dunsmlur, the defendant, at length. Ho dealt on tho alleged Infamy of the transfer of tho San Francisco business busi-ness of 11. Dunsmulr's Sons. This obviously obvi-ously paying business, ho said, was mado to appear unprofitable by a mutilation of bookkeeping nnd tho raising of tho price of coal from $3 to $-3 50 per ton. He attacked the evidence of Gompertz, treasurer of the San Francisco, company, and that of James Dunsmulr, with regard to the sale of tho Brlstal. which was paid for with a check given by the mother for $03,000. Mr. Tuppcr alleged that Dunsmulr resorted re-sorted to fraud to Induce his mother to transfer her holdings to him nnd his brother, the late Alexander Dunsmulr, nnd In prevailing upon his brother Alexander Alex-ander to will Ma shnro to James Dunsmulr. |