LOVE FOR PROFIT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 997, 13 June 1930, Page 1

LOVE FOR PROFIT

GAINING CONFIDENCE OF WOMEN . SIX MONTHS FOR FRAUD "Ho is a professional love-maker,” said Chief-Detective Hammond, at the Police Court this morning, of Cecil Granville, who was charged on two counts of false pretences. Granville, who was said to have secured the confidence of marriageable women, thus obtaining money and jewellery, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment Granville, a bookbinder, aged 41, was charged with obtaining £25 from Joseph Jesney at Waikino on December 10, 1957, by falsely representing that he was a member of the firm of G. A. Granville, Ltd., manufacturers, of Sydney. There was a second charge cf obtaining £3 from William Bresson Watson by falsely representing that he was in the employ of an Auckland firm. Mr. T. C. Webb appeared for accused and entered pleas of guilty. The chief-detective said Granville was a professional love-maker. who paid attentions to marriageable women. Three years ago he had written to a young woman in the country who had been a competitor* in a beauty competition. He had made an appointment' with her and got into the good graces of the family. He had obtained a five-stone diamond engagement ring that the young woman happened to have in her possession, and borrowed £25 from the father by representing that he was a member of a Sydney firm. Granville had then gone to Sydney, and there were complaints about him from women living in Australia. He had proposed marriage to one woman from whom he had obtained £SO to make preparations for the wedding. “Accused admits that he is the man,” continued the chief-detective. "He is a married man with three children and his wife is in Dunedin.” The chiefdetective added that Granville had been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in 1923 for false pretences and had previously done terms of six months and one month.

Mr. Webb pointed out that accused had lodged a gold watch , and chain as security for the loan of £25. It was admitted, however, that he had misled complainant about whence the money for repayment woyld come. Counsel asked for leniency, urging that accused wanted to make good. He had returned to his wife and family. Mr» F. K. Hunt, S.M.: He returned because he had been up to the same sort of thing in Sydney. A term of six months’ imprisonment was imposed.