"MONTREALER GETS LENIENT SENTENCE," Montreal Star. July 4, 1934. Page 11. ---- Pleads Guilty at Three Rivers in Cigar Factory Fraud --- THREE RIVERS, July 4 - (C.P.) - Time in jail was the sentence of Magistrate F. X. Lacoursiere today imposed upon J. Adrien Deslauriers of Montreal when he pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to defraud. Deslauriers was a director of the Venus Cigar Company. His arrest followed failure of the company to start manufacturing operations after stock shares had been widely sold in this district. He has been in jail here since the middle of May.
Four other directors of the company are at liberty on bail pending hearing of their trial at the next criminal assizes. They face the same charge as that against Deslauriers.
Two salesmen of the company, J. H. Prieur and J. B. Cote, have already been sentenced to four months each in prison for conspiracy to defraud.
The prosecution alleges that an abandoned school had been purchased in Cap de la Madeleine as a factory for the company and the stock widely sold about here, but that the company never started turning out cigars.
