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INSOLUBLE PUZZLE 18 FRAUD CHARGES “If everybody in the world put in a million solutions none of them could be right," said Theodore Desmond Poulton. aged 38, of the Oxford Cross-Word Puzzle competition. He should have known, because he organised the competition. Poulton, who was sentenced early this month for obtaining - money by false pretences, appeared at the Police Court yesterday to answer 18 additional charges. They all related to the fradulent cross-word puzzle competition which he organised on release from gaol. Chief-Detective Cummings said that accused had told him it was impossible to solve the puzzle. “We intend to take action in all these cross-word puzzle competitions,” added the chief-detective. Poulton was convicted and discharged on all charges.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 235, 23 December 1927, Page 12
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