WEDDING -EVE AR REST. LONDON, Aug.. 2. Wearing a plus-four suit. Ernest Edward Currie, aged 2d, of the Esplanade, Lowestoft, was sentenced at Marlborough Street yesterday to twelve months’ hard labour for fraud, Mr Cancellor, the magistrate, saying he had made a business of defrauding people who were hard up and wanted to get employment. Detective Fury said there were other cases, in three of which Currie had obtained £450. There were no convictions against him, but he came under the notice of the police in 1923 when he was working with Bruce Edgar Breed, or Melrose, who was sentenced to 12 moNiis* hard labour at Margate for obtaining £3OO by means of worthless businesses. After that Currie opened businesses in Loudon as an estate agent. Mr Cancellor, the magistrate: You sav he left London principally to escape his responsibilities towards a girl and to escape from her mother, from whom he had borrowed £3OO. Detective Fury: Yes. He went to an East Coast town and then to Lowestoft, where he was arrested when about to marry a wealthy widow ol'der than him- ! self.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1927, Page 3
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