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Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1925, Page 4

.M A STEP (Hi.MINA 1.. I.ONDOX, Septomlier . Described Ly ;i ic police as ii <-!'i 111 i 11:1 1 ’•'iih a mater mind. .Maurice Alien, otherwise (illy Hoy>ton Predion, on, pleaded guilty at Middlesex Sessions »n Saturday to attemptiitg in obtain money bv false pretences. It was stated thru he. advertised a house to let and to the hundreds of people who replied he wrote offering the house if a deposit was sent. Me did not get any of the money, as healing - e police were after him. he Hod before the letters reached him. When he came out oi prison from his last .sentence relatives gave him rnonev to go to Australia, hut he did not go. Detective-Sergeant Mendyside said that Allen was related to people of good social position in Essex and after being educated at Oainsborougb Grammar School and King's College. London, he became a private tutor in I’russels. He returned to England in 1893 and had since served sentences of penal servitude amounting to 27 years for forgery and stealing letters. The COD found on him was from selling two Victory fiends stolen from the West Central Post Office last year. Allen was sentenced to two years’ hard labour.