Two South African gold mine promoters, who had perpetrated one of the biggest swindles in their country's history (TIME, Dec. 15, 1947), last week got their comeuppance. In Johannesburg, horse-racing Norbert Stephen Erleigh, 46, and his rude, crude ex-partner, Joseph Milne, 53, were convicted on a combined total of 63 fraud and theft counts. The court said that their New Union Goldfields, Ltd., which had once controlled 160 companies valued at some £30 million, "was, in reality, a gambling house."
Erleigh and Milne, the court found, had shifted the assets of their...
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