DUKE OF MANCHESTER

Evening Star, Issue 22026, 11 May 1935, Page 15

DUKE OF MANCHESTER

SENTENCED ID IMPRISONMENT ILLEGAL PAWNING OF HEIRLOOMS Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright LONDON, May 10. (Received May 11,- at 10 a.m.) The Duke of Manchester was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment on two charges of false pretences. The prosecutioji alleged that the duke obtained sums of £4OO, £2OO, and £SO by pawning jewellery, falsely representing that it belonged to him. The jewellery consisted l of heirlooms left by his mother on trust,' by which it could be lent to the duke’s first and second wives. • ■ ' , . Mr Curtis Bennett, for the defence, declared that Sutton's executors initiated the prosecution two years after the pawning. The Duke of Manchestei gave evidence emphatically denying intention to defraud. He declared that he was prepared now to redeem the jewels and pay the interest. He bowed to the judge when sentenced, betraying no emotion. [A message received on March 19 stated: The Duke' of Mamchester was arrested and charged with obtaining £650 by false pretences in 1933 from Thomas Sutton, a wealthy London pawnbroker and jeweller, and his manager, Walter Lawlor, both deceased. The duke was remanded on bail., William Angus Drogo Montagu, ninth Duke of Manchester, is 59 years of age. He succeeded to the title on the death of his father, the eighth duke, in 1892.]