Duke of Manchester’s Conviction
QUASHED BY APPEAL COURT. United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, Juno 5. The Appeal Court lias quashed the conviction against the Duko of Manchester on charges of false pretence, chiefly on the grounds that the Recorder had insufficiently and unsatisfactorily directed the jury on the point of the Duke’s belief. In counsel’s opinion he had the right to deal with jewellery. Received Thursday, 7.55 p.m. LONDON, June C. The Duke of Manchester was released shortly after the decision and went to his castlo at Kimbolton, St. Ncots. The Duke of Manchester was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment on two charges of false pretences. The prosecution alleged that the Duke obtained sums of £4OO and £250 by pawning jewellery and falsely representing it belonged to him. The jewellery was heirlooms left by his mother on trust, by which it could be lent to the Duke’s first and second wives.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 132, 7 June 1935, Page 8
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