KIDNAPPING CHARGE
THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST LORD NUFFIELD THORNTON FOUND GUILTY SENTENCED TO SEVEN YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright.' (Recd This Day, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, July 22. John Bruce Thornton, accused of conspiring to kidnap Lord Nuffield, was found guilty on all counts, and was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment. In sentencing Thornton, the Judge said the only possible verdict had been returned. “This is about as bad a case of carrying firearms as is imaginable,” his Honour added. “You endeavoured to incite another man to join in a criminal conspiracy which might well have ended in murder.”
The Chief Constable of Oxford said Thornton’s correct name was Patrick Boyle Tuellman. Born in Scotland, the son of a German watchmaker, Thornton had been married five times, twice to the same woman. He had once demanded £170,000 from a wealthy man, and had received between £40,000 and £50,000 from this source.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 July 1938, Page 5
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150KIDNAPPING CHARGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 July 1938, Page 5
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