PROFESSOR'S DOUBLE LIFE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3, 3 January 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)

PROFESSOR'S DOUBLE LIFE.

BAOK ROOM FOR HIS WIFE; LAUNCH FOR LADY FRIELNDS.

A brilliant career came to a sad conclusion at the Old Bailey a few weeks ago, when John Goodfellow, aged 40, a professor of science and a writer of standard works, who was also stated to hold the degree of Doctor of Science of the German University of Wurzburg, pleaded guilty to forging and uttering a bill of exchange for £500 in the name of Messrs E. and T. Pink, by whom he was employed as an analyst.

According to the evidence for the prosecution, the prisoner was employed at one time at the Bromley Institute as lecturer in science, and had an income of £1500 a year.

• Detective-Sergeant Lyon, of the City Police, said he had learned that Goodfellow had been leading a double life. Whue his wife and child were living in a small room at West Ham, with scarcely anything to eat, the prisoner occupied a bungalow at Thames Ditton, and had a steam launch on the river. He showered money lavishly on various lady friends.

On behalf of the prisoner it was urged that he had got into financial difficulties, and had recourse to moneylenders. For chree years he had been in their clutches, paying 60 to 100 per cent, for the money iie borrowed.

iHe was considered one of the leading authorities on the dietetic properties of bread, and had been consulted by most of the leading confectioners in the coun-

Goodfellow was sentenced to three years' penal servitude. On the understanding that £10 should be allotted to the prisoner's wife, the Recorder ordered that about £80 in the prisoner's possession should be handed to the firm defrauded in part restitution.