NINE MONTHS' GAOL
DUKE OF MANCHESTER
SENTENCED FOR FRAUD
HIS MOTHER'S JEWELS
Unlted Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received May 11, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 10. The Duke of Manchester was sentenced tp nine' months' imprisonment on two charges of false pretences. The prosecution alleged that the Duke obtained sums of £400 and £250 . by pawning jewellery which" he falselly represented belonged to him. The j jewellery comprised heirlooms left by j his mother on trust, whereby it could | be lent to the Duke's first and second 1 "wiyes.- . . v. ! Mr. Curtis Bennett, the defending counsel, declared that Button's executors on March 18 initiated the-prosecu-tion two years after the pawning took place. ' ' ... The Duke of Manchester, in evidence, emphatically denied intention to defraud.1 He declared that he was prepared now to redeem the jewels and pay\th'e interest. ■-".■■]'_. "' He bowed to the Judge when he was sentenced, but betrayed' no emotion.
A cable message., dated? March 18 stated that the Duke of Manchester had been arrested on a chargel of obtaining £650 by false pretences in 1933 from Thomas Sutton, a wealthy London'pawnbroker and jeweller, and his manager,. Walter La'wler, both deceased. .'.'.., The Duke of Manchester was born I in 1876, and was married in 1900 toj Miss Helenas Zimmerman, an Ameri-' can girl, -who divorced him in 1931. He was married again in the- same year, to Miss Kathleen Dawes.^ He,
was educated at Eton and,"Cambridge,
and subsequently joined the Army, re- ' ceivihg a commission as.a captain' in 7 ,the 6th Battalion of the Lancashire i Fusiliers. In 1906 he* was ■ appointed ' d captain in, his Majesty's Bodyguard, the Yeomen of the Guard. He owns
, about 4000 acres of land, and possesses s a fine collection of paintings by the , great masters. His ancestral . home, Kimbolton Castle, contains many . relics of Catherine, of Aragon's residence and death within its walls.' He has followed many, outdoor recreationsyparticularly hunting and shooting;'
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 110, 11 May 1935, Page 9
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318NINE MONTHS' GAOL Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 110, 11 May 1935, Page 9
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