RIVIERA FRAUDS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1926, Page 4

RIVIERA FRAUDS.

LONDON, Jan. 25. A remarkable story ol : audacious frauds carried out on the Riviera by a plausible adventurer who is posing alternatively as the nephew and brother of a liar ley-street, \V., specialist was revealed yesterday when Dr. Gordon Gordou-Taylor, the anatomist, and -Middlesex Hospital surgeon, repudiated all knowledge of the man. In Monte Carlo and Nice the man went under the name of “Major It. Gordon-Tavlor.” Described as well dressed and well bred, the man. thought to he a foreigner, haunted the best hotels of the ltiviera, where be made the acquaintance of English women visitors, in conversation with whom he always referred to “my brother” or “my uncle the famous surgeon.” At Monte Carlo last year the man made the acquaintance of an English resident, a former patient of Mr Gor-don-Ta.vlor. and in consideration of what the man’s “uncle” had done for her she lent the man £3SQ. A few days later the man disappeared. Last week the woman, who is comparatively poor, wrote to the surgeon and the deception was discovered. “Dr Gordon-Tavlor,” his secretary said to a reporter last night, “has no brother and no relatives of the same name, nor has he heard before of this man. He has taken the matter up with Scotland Yard and the Continental police.”