News of the Hatchards group’s financial difficulties and the disposal of its shops had spread and had led to speculation in the newspapers in Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia that Hatry was contemplating joining his son, Cecil, who had moved there some years before and had taken an interest in a hotel. This led to the Commander of Bulawayo CID writing to New Scotland Yard to ask for information about Clarence Hatry’s offences. In response, the Metropolitan Police supplied a six-page report of Hatry’s activities which ended: ‘Exhaustive enquiries have been made in financial and trade circles with the result that no person has voiced any suspicions against Hatry’s business methods since his release from prison’.1 The Metropolitan ...
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