TRAFFIC IN TITLES
KNSGHT OF HOLY SEPULCHRE
SIDELIGHT AT OLD BAILEY;
(Received March 2, 2 p.m.) LONDON, March 1., Benjamin George Pengelly,VsS, for twelve years accountant, to Maundy Gregory, was sentenced to sis months' imprisonment at tnc Old Bailey, .for demanding money by menaces from His Beatitude Louis Barlassina, Patriarch, of Jerusalem. . ,'■ ,- .:_. ...."." The PatriarehaLSecretarjvAlexander Kirby, gave evidence that" Pengelly wrote three letters threatening to', print the photographs''of :two cheques for £500 each which-Gregory-paid the Patriarchin a book describing Gregory's dealings in; British, and 'foreign; titles' and honours, but was prepared to withhold if the Patriarch recompensed him. - Cross-examined the witness1 said that Gregou-y paid the cheques to the Patriarch as personal gifts for. the use of the> mission,bjit admitt«di 'that*they were associated with knighthoods of the Holy Sepulchre, of wjiich- the Patriarch was the head. The Recorder said that he gave Pengelly a light sentence'owing to "his poverty and illness. He added: "The value of these ecclesiastical Knighthoods of the Holy Sepulchre will henceforth be duly appreciated here and elsewhere."
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 52, 2 March 1934, Page 8
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170TRAFFIC IN TITLES Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 52, 2 March 1934, Page 8
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