FALSE PRETENCES
A BAD RECORD.
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(Received this dav at 9. a.m.) LONDON, January G. A supposedly born Australian, Gerald Vladimer Crichton,’ alias Sujohns, falsely self-described as a nephew of Sitr -George ICriehton, was sentenced at Marlborough Street to 6 months’ Hard labour for incurring a debt of (' eignt guineas at a Dover Street hotbl by means of false pretenses on Chirst-. mas Day. Another man paid the debt on January 2. Crichton said he came' to England from Cape Ferrat to rebut a charge of plagiarism. 1 A detective testified that Crichton’s articles were cribbed. Crichton had been imprisoned for a week at Sydney in 1925 and was sentenced in Wei1, lington for false .pretences, ( and at Paris for vagabondage, as the result of not paying cfiiampaghe; supper for cabaret girls. ■i ' - ■
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1931, Page 5
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