Olympic Athlete Sentenced For Theft
(11 a.m.) PARIS, April 6. Jean. Claude Arifon, the French. Olympic hurdler who last year established a European record of 51.6 sec. for the 400 metres hurdles, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and fined £6 for stealing wallets from the Paris Stadium dressing-room. The 'sentence was suspended after Arifon promised to enlist in the French Army airborne unit in Morocco.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22916, 7 April 1949, Page 5
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