ADVENTURER SENTENCED
SIX MONTHS FOR FALSE PRETENCES
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
(Received 7th January, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, 6th January. Supposedly born in Australia, Gerald Vladimir Crichton, alias Upjohns, falsely self described as a nephew of Sir George Crichton, was sentenced at Marlborough Street to six months ’hard labour for incurring a .debt of eight guineas at Dover Strtlet Hotel by means of false pretences'ton Christmas Day. Another man paid the debt on the 2nd January. Crichton said he came to England from Cape Ferrat to rebut a charge of plagiarism. A detective testified that Crichton's articles were cribbed. Crichton had been imprisoned for a week in Sydney in 1925, sentenced in Wellington for false pretences, and in Paris for vagabondage as the result of not paying for a champagne supper for cabaret girls.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 7 January 1931, Page 5
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134ADVENTURER SENTENCED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 7 January 1931, Page 5
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