GAOL FOR TEA “PESTS”
GULLIBILITY OF WOMEN
LONDON, March IS. “I hope the countryside will be- rid of pests of this kind,” said Judge Dodson at the Old Bailey yesterday, when sentencing three- men. Thomas Henry Slark, 41, traveller, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, Vernon Alexander Robinson, 26, salesman, to 21 months, and Stanley James Strong. 2S, warehouseman, to 15 months. They pleaded guilty to conspiring to cheat and defraud persons concerning the purchase of tea. It was stated that defendants told women that if they bought certain tea they would get a large prize in money. Judge Dodson said he hoped that housewives in London and elsewhere would profit by the fate of those who fell into the hands of the defendants. “How this fraud flourished as it did,” he remarked, “is a tribute to the vocabulary of the canvassers. It is also a severe censure on the gullibility of housekeepers and women, sometimes with very small means.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 8 May 1936, Page 5
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