WOMAN DEFRAUDED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 626, 1 April 1929, Page 11

WOMAN DEFRAUDED

DEPORTED MAN’S SWINDLE MARRIAGE AT GRETNA GREEN It. w.as revealed at Birmingham Quarter Sessions that an adventurer disappeared alter defrauding a woman, and later persuaded a girl in the South of England to marry him at Gretna Green. The man in the dock, Charles Francis Fennell, 44, a canvasser, was sentenced to 15 months hard labour for obtaining £285 by false pretences from Mrs. Ruby Bellamy, formerly of Gipsy Lane, Erdington, but now of Ramsgate. According to the prosecution, Fennell, in May last, made the acquaintance of Mrs. Bellamy, who had obtained a separation order from her husband, with whom, however, she was now living happily- Fennell used to call at her house for boot repairs, and she confided her troubles to him. She owned the house in which she lived, which was worth between £6OO and £625, and he suggested she should mortgage it for £3OO ill order to purchase a boot repairing business at Hull I Green, Birmingham. Mrs. Bellamy first advanced him £2OO and then a further £BS, which, he <leclared ie required for the purchase of machin erv and leather. Fennell, however failed to carry out the project, and in September he went from his ings saying he was going t . stone as his sister was dead, but he would return in a lev/ < aj tember 17 Mrs. Bellamy complained to thT police, and later Deputy-Superm-tendent Sterry told the Court that Fennell’s real name was Nathan A faham Isaacs, and he was a native o London He went as a youth to Ame vie and was there for 25 years. Fen nell was sentenced in Amenca vear’s imprisonment tor tor o ery was deported as an undesirab e and arrived in England about April, 19~6. When accused absconded from B r mingbam he went to London tings, where he met a girtduced her to ''■ : | v ‘ N tTrd at Gretna £2'„“ Vhen fSv “Srned Ot. fathe’- forgave her and made her a wedding Present of £s° told her he would put it into the £IOO and gave the girl a certificate several persons he had a | family in Oklahoma.

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there was a mutiny on the boat and brother and Mr. Phillips, who were the only Europeans on board, were murdered in cold blood. Tbe wa y tor the natives to sate skins was to scuttle the ship, and that ■ ccounts for her going down m a calm seaTn broad daylight. How else can ohe explain that the two Europeans and the faithful little native servant were the only ones not found by the rescue ship? I think they had tried to dispose of the three and the youngster has lived to tell the tale. Captain Pinnington was a most respected man in Liverpool shipping circles, and his serv: I with the Navy during i rtie war as a youngster, coupled with i his career since, indicated a splendid future. He was only 35 years of age. and he went to India, trading round i the coast, three and a-half years ago, ; on a five years’ agreement.