HYPOCRITE’S FRAUD

Evening Star, Issue 18158, 26 December 1922, Page 1

HYPOCRITE’S FRAUD

CHEATED EVERYONE WHO TRUSTED HIM. Scathing censure of a man he sentenced to twelve months’ hard labor for fraud came from the lips of Mr Chapman, the Westminster Police Court Nothing meaner or worse than tire cringing and hypocrisy of Trevor Dunbar, he said, could be conceived. Dunbar (says the 'Sunday Chronicle’) is the widower of a woman who last July drowned herself and her two children in the Thames. Dunbar was charged at the time with robbing a who had sheltered him and his family, and it was then stated that his duplicity had 'so preyed' on the sensitive mind of his wife that she threw herself into the river with ■her children. The man pleaded for a chance to live up to a standard which he referred to as “a living memorial of the dear ones departed." Arrangements were then made for his lodging at Bourne End with an elderly widow, a shopkeeper, who was touched by tlie story of his loss. The widow now gave evidence that for nearly three months Dunbar had never paid one penny for his board and lodging, and that by the pretence that he was opening a shop in the Strand and being assisted' by his uncle, “Lord Gort,” he had obtained from her two sums of £lO and two gold rings. Further particular's of the recent career' of Dunbar disclosed to the court included a promise to marry a young woman who was robbed. She gave up her appointment for the marriage, and now wrote s “1 Blank God from the innermost depths of my heart that ho waa caught just in the nick of time.” _ Mr Chapman said: “Ho has robbed benefactress after benefactress,:, and in every possible way abused the leniency and help extended to him. “It makes one shudder to think that a man could market hia misfortunes by a lying article contributed by him to a newspaper, in which ho whined that ho never had a chance. “He has had every chance, and cheated everybody who trusted him. v