DYING MAN BLACKMAILED

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 183, 17 May 1939, Page 1

DYING MAN BLACKMAILED

BOGUS PRIEST GAOLED LONDON. March I.—Raymond (“Spicier”) Mdllinenux, blackmailer, bogus priest and ex-convict, went mumbling down the dock .stairs at the Old Bailey when Mr. Justice Sigleton sentenced him to 10 years’ penal servitude yesterday. The jury had convicted him ol demanding money by menaces iroin- a man, now: dead, whose identity was screened as Mr. A. Mir A’s dying statement, taken in the bedroom of hi's borne at Enfield, .Middlesex, was read out as evidence for the prosecution by the clerk of the court yesterday. Mullincux, described as a 39-year-old .salesman, of Upper Berkeley street, AY., cringed when a police inspector gave details of his past, which included a previous conviction of four years’ penal servitude, also fot blackmail. The inspector said: “The victim in tlic previous case also broke down under the strain of blackmail, and died shortly after the case came to court, as the present victim did.” “Terrible To Me” When Mullineaux beard this lie pleaded to the judge : “I am not capable of being • responsible for the death of any man. i like my fellow beings too well for that. AAbatecer sentence you mete out the; very thought that l may have hurried this unfortunate man’s death is terrible to me.” The nickname “Spider” was earned by the cunning way ALullineux marked down "his victims for blackmail. Air. A. fell into liis clutches early last year, after lie had met a boy in the Hay market, AY., and entertained jiiiii at his house at Enfield.