TRIAL OF JOHN MONTAGUE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 10 September 1937, Page 3

TRIAL OF JOHN MONTAGUE

I'LliA OF NOT GUILTY (United Press AHsocialion-H.y Electric lVl«graph-(l<«pvrightl ELIZABETH TOWN (N.Y.), 7th September. The golfer John Montague was arraigned and pleaded not guilty to the charge of theft of 700 dollars. His trial will take place during the week beginning 11th October. Montague declared that he did not know Roger Norton, who has already served thirty months’ imprisonment for his share in the hold-up with which Montague, is charged. John Montague. whose cinema friends rallied to his aid, was recently extradited from California for a hearing concerning an indictment in Essex County, New York, charging him with a 700-dollar robbery. The police said that Montague, whose source of livelihood had been a Hollywood mystery, was actually Laverne Moore Montague. They stated that the first charge resulted from a prank when he was just a boy, but they intended to question him regarding other robberies. The Judge, in granting Montague bail on 26th August, said that Montague resermbled Jean Valjean, the principal character in Victor Hugo’s “L'.» Miscrables.” “He appears to have worked out a compelte reformation and become a useful, respected, and distinguished citizen,” he said.