Twin Londoners Of 21 Set Court A Puzzle

Chronicle (Levin), 7 February 1948, Page 4

Twin Londoners Of 21 Set Court A Puzzle

Was Philip Goldberg, 21-year-old Londoner, at a meeting of the British League of Ex-Servicemen on October 3— or was it his twin brother Joseph? This .problem will be reopened at London Sessions as a resuit of a remarkable eoincidence discovered after Philip had been sentence'd at Old Street, London. Philip, who lives at Tredegar Square, Bow, with his brother, was sentence'd to one month's iinprisonment for disobeying • a Court order to stay away from meetings of the British League of Ex-Sm;vicenien. He was released on £2OO'0ail. He gave ■ notice of appeal because he claimed that the man identified by the poiice as- Philip Goldberg at a league meeting in Victoria Park Square, Bethnai. Green, on ''October 3 must have been his twin, Joseph. Philip could not produce his twin in Court, and the ihaglstrate described his story as a lie: But while Fhilip .was trying to coilvincfe the magistrate 6f his innocence Joseph was in the dock at Chester Assizes, and was okdered back to borstal, from which he had absconded. Poiice eVidence at Chester Assizes tvas that Joseph escaped from a borstal institution on Septerftber 14 and Was at latge untii his arres't in London *oh October 9. '