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PARENTS ALMOST RUINED. At Westminster, London, a native of Newport, Monmouthshire, Hugh James Gibbs, aged 27, traveller, was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for stealing as a bailee a vacuum cleaner, valued £l2 10s. Gibbs desired three other offences to be taken into consideration. Detective Lusty stated that four previous convictions were recorded against Gibbs at Pontypridd, Maidenhead, Derby and Romford. Two of these were for obtaining board and lodging by false pretences, and the others for larceny. For years, the detective added, Gibbs bad been a source of great trouble to his parents at Newport. Some time ago they set him up in business there as a tobacconist. He did'not make a success of it, and they had almost to sell up their home to pay his debts. He had practically ruined them.
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Grey River Argus, 18 January 1939, Page 5
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136MODERN PRODIGAL Grey River Argus, 18 January 1939, Page 5
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