TURF TRICKSTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 139, 14 June 1932, Page 7

TURF TRICKSTER.

FORTUNE'S HEIR FALLS. LONDON, June 9. He claimed to be heir to a fortune in Australia, but the police described him as a elever international confidence trickster whose convictions were recorded in Sydney, America and England. He was Jolin Lumley Bernard • (44), who pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining £500 from a dentist, £300 from another man, who asked that a further charge of attempting to obtain £500 should be considered by the prosecution without revealing the names of the victims. It was stated that Bernard's engaging manner secured the friendship of the dentist, to whom he showed a letter purporting to come from Michalinos, the owner of the racehorse. ZanofT, referring to Bernard's integrity, and asking him to put £7500 on ZanofT for the Lincolnshire. The dentist gave Bernard £400, but ZanofT lost. Later he gave Bernard £100 to hack another horse, but lost the money. Bernard then disappeared. He went to Sheringham, and stayed at a hotel. He told another victim that he was a horse breeder, and secured £300 to put on Miracle in the Derby. The defence urged that since 1911 Bernard was honest, and spent all his money trying to save his wife from death* from cancer. A brother died in I Australia last year, and left him a substantial sum. He was sentence-', to six months' imprisonment with hard labour, land ordered to pay costs.