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Show FRAUD AND COLLUSION ARE CHARGED TO COAL DEAL Victoria. It. C. Oct. 2'. - Charges of conspimcy to defraud and manipulation manipula-tion of n claim filed In an action begun be-gun here yesterday by Dan Id Spencer, Jr.. and Ephrnlm lligson against Luther Luth-er Swl-hard f,f New York, the Pacific Const Coal Mines conipanv. limited of Victoria, and several prominent Victoria Vic-toria nnd Winnipeg businessmen. llkson l ransfcrred coal laud. Ilcen-hcs Ilcen-hcs and ntiplications for license to the defendants in Mmch, 1'iOS making n agreement by which he wa to get 34 l.Oun shares of tho coal ni'ms company ami charges that the defendants defend-ants are withholding the shares with Intent to defraud him The Recounts of the South Wellington Welling-ton Oral Mines, limited , hae been falsified and manipulated. It Is al-lei:d. al-lei:d. to make it appear that John Arbutnot, one of the defendants, who is president of th'.a company. was entitled to .32.Vhiio tor the Tnciflc Const Coal Mines limited, and by fraud and collusion has been given a charge tin the company's isscts. whereas. In fact, the assets turned over In the South Wellington Ooal Mines company were .icriuiied with money belonging to the company and not to John Aibulnot It is charged that Ihe Tactile Coat Ooal Mines limited, is insolvent as' a result of the alleged manlpnloHen. j |