“CRUEL AND HEARTLESS”
Unemployed Sivindled Remarking that it was a cleverly engineered and intricate scheme to prey upon persons whose only desire was to get work, the London magistrate, Mr. J B. Sandbaeli. K.C., sentenced John Connelly, aged 33, sports manager, to 12 months’ imprisonment recently. “Yon committed a cruel and heartless fraud.” the magistrate told Connellv, "and got their all from people who could ill afford to pay the money you obtained, and some had even got into debt.” Connelly obtained money in connection with tlie Scottish Sports and Skiff Racing Company, 1935, Limited, and at his office the police found 600 opened applications and 750 unopened letters. “Had it not been for the fact that one of the applicants for work went to the police a very big fraud would have been perpetrated,” commented Mr. Lawson YValton, prosecuting. Considerable stints in 1/- shares had been subscribed to the scheme, and Connelly had left someone in charge of an office at Glasgow and had moved to London. There were reasons to believe that later he was going to Canada.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 198, 19 May 1936, Page 2
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