[?]Ow A Tahiti Merchant

Lost £750

i N Australian showman, Barney I. Bergin, was charged at the Sydney Quarter Sessions, in jptember, with having received oney from Oscar Nordman, of ahiti, and with having fraudu ntly omitted to account for'same, fter a four days’ trial, the jury und him not guilty.

Police evidence showed that brdman, in 1949, sent to Sydney 50 as first payment on certain nusement-park equipment selec d for him in Sydney by Mr. snderson, who then was British msul in Papeete. Bergin received e money but failed either to ship e equipment that had been dered by Nordman, or to return e £750.

Die defence was that Henderson i not order any particular ichme, and that Bergin offered ship a machine which he claimed with specifications, and his witnesses flatly tned this; but the jury apparently :epted Bergin’s argument.

Bergin, last year, was charged f r 3 uc *’ i* l that he accepted bstantial money from another awman, on an undertaking that

he would provide the showman with two specimens of wild jungle men from Borneo. He was acquitted on that charge, also.