A BOGUS HEIR.
LIGHT SENTENCES PAS3EL) ON A SCOUNDREL. By telegraph. Press Asa’n, Copyright Rco-wed 12,22 a.m., Fab. 23. Sydnoy, Feb. 23. At Penrith George Thomas reoeived sentences of one, two, and three months respectively on three ohargrs of obtaining money with intent to defraud. Bypassing as heir to a fortune with an inoome of four thousand pounds a year, and on tbe strength of promises of mnniQosnt donations to benevolent societies and other institutions, the acoaeod sucooeded in deceiving many influential persons in Sydney Sind elsewhere and obtaining considerable loans. He lived lavishly, aad victimised hotelkeepers and tradespeople wholesale.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1682, 24 February 1906, Page 3
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100A BOGUS HEIR. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1682, 24 February 1906, Page 3
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