To Wait Five Years For “Scoundrel”

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 333, 14 January 1937, Page 7

To Wait Five Years For “Scoundrel”

PENNILESS. BUT WILL STICK TO HIM,' SAYS WIFE OF CONVICT

Police described Wm as a persistent, plausible and unscrupulous scoundrel in whose favour notthing could be said. The chairman of West Kent Quarter Sessions at Maidstone, (England,) declared that description to be no whit I too strong. 1 He was sentenced to five years’ penal I servitude and seven years’ police super [ vision for defauding poor people cluetIly women—by pretending to be a solicitor’s clerk, and felling them that I they -had *come into money, but must first pay him legal fees. These things he had done in many parts of the country—indeed, he asked that 21 other cases be considered. ( BUT— When he last left prison he married She was a girl of good characte- ignorant of his past. And now, expecting a child, she save•‘l am penniless, but I will wait for him and stick to him when he comes out.’ His name is William Frederick pourne, aged 28. He made a long appeal for mercy ana ended: "My marriage has had a psycho logical effect on me and I will not du wrong again.”