PROFESSIONAL LOVEMAKER
Auckland, June 13. “Apparently this man is a professional lovemaikor,” said the chief: detective when Cecil Granville, aged il, pleaded guilty to obtaining money by false pretences at Waikiao and in Wellington in 1927.
'Pile chief detective added that accused got inlo touch with an entrant in a beauty contest, oblained an engagement ring from her and borrowed £25 from her father. Then, knowing that the police were after him, he went to Sydney, where, according lo a letter the police received, he had been at the same game. lie was a married man, with three children.
Granville was sentenced to six iu<mtbs’ imprisonmen t.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4465, 14 June 1930, Page 2
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107PROFESSIONAL LOVEMAKER Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4465, 14 June 1930, Page 2
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