A ROGUE’S CAREER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 15 June 1920, Page 5

A ROGUE’S CAREER

At Liverpool Assizes Mr Justice McCardie sentenced Richard Thomas Oubbin, 53, to five .years’ penal set vitnde for forgery and giving false death certificates, says ‘ the London Daily Telegraph. Prosecuting counsel stated that the. prisoner, by posing as Sir Alexander Thomas Munro, whose name anpt-.ar-ed in tlxe medical register, secured ' berths as locum tenons and assrstuut to medical men in various places,, andmadq out death certificates. T-yq charges concerned Blackpool : n'd "Wigan. The police related an extr.xo: Umay story of prisoner’s past. Thu son of a collier, lie worked in a mvne lor a time, met with an accident, and bad his left leg amputated. Be ccscrted his wife, had had no settled abode since 1895, practised as a medical man in Las Palmas for three yen's, attending post-mortems and inquests ; gained the confidence, of women hi comfortable circumstances, married them, and stole their possessions. A, doctor died aboard a- certain ship, and after three years prisoner went to *the widow, and persuaded her that ho was her returned husband. He had served two sentences of five years for bigamy, and three years for giving false death certificates. One of *us cards read, “Colonel Surgeon Sir Thomas Munro.” , The Judge. —And I see another reads “Brigadioi>General Sir Thomas Munro, Bt., K.B.E.”—his stationery bears a coronet. . . . L . , For the defence, it was pleaded that the prisoner’s diplomas were in Canada.* Prisoner expressed regret, and asked for a chance to reform.