FALSE PRETENCES
MAN INCURS HOTEL DEBT SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 6, (Received January 7, at 9.30 a.m.) Supposedly born in Australia, Gerald Vladimir Crichton alias Upjohns, falsely self-described as a nephew of Sir George Crichton, was sentenced at Marlborough Street Police Court to six months’ hard labour for incurring a debt of eight guineas at a Dover street Hotel by means of false pretences on Christmas Day. Another man paid tho debt on January 2. Crichton said he came to England from Cap Ferrat (Algeria) to rebut a charge of plagiarism. A detective testified that Crichton’s articles were cribbed. Crichton had been imprisoned for a week in Sydney in 1925 and sentenced in Wellington for false pretences, and in Paris for vagabondage as tho result of not paying for a champagne supper for cabaret gilds.
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Evening Star, Issue 20685, 7 January 1931, Page 7
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139FALSE PRETENCES Evening Star, Issue 20685, 7 January 1931, Page 7
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