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Instead he was using Government money for other purposes. Merrick- Chadwick and Clutterbuck of Walker were like a pair of German Rottweilers who wouldn't let go, once they got their teeth into Jeffrey. They had decided by the Christmas of 1934 that they had to get rid of him but it took 13 years before they eventually managed it."
"Ever since by the sounds of it your Grandfather and presumably your Father and yourself have taken it upon yourselves to maintain a cloak of secrecy over the whole affair?"
Eric hesitated momentarily but was crushed by Dawson's glare.
"Yes; it wasn't easy. Especially when Jeffrey was forced into a Public Enquiry about his financial affairs. Luckily the Newfoundland Supreme Court Judge Weaden largely found in his favour which protected us to a certain extent. Even though Weaden never did find out the truth about the fortune Jeffrey was making, nor did he have an inkling about the business arrangement between Jeffrey and my Grandfather back in Wales, it was a real stroke of good luck that the judge sided with Jeffrey and not with the British Government. We were all convinced that if he had found in Downing Street's favour then our game was up.
Jeffrey would then have had nothing to lose because he would have lost everything already. He could safely put all the blame for everything that had happened on my Grandfather. His case would have been impossible to dispute because of all the damning documentary evidence he had collected in his dealings with Grandfather. The British and Newfoundland Courts would have tried Grandfather for accepting illegal payments and other backhanders. He and at least all the other Commissioners of Natural Resources would most likely have spent the rest of their lives in jail.
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