WED IN FALSE NAME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21562, 5 August 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)

WED IN FALSE NAME

YOUNG MAN'S DECEPTION *»• USE OF BORROWED RING Stnted to have carried out an extraordinary scheme of deception in hi* courtship, Alexander Dofsky, aged 24, of Liverpool, appeared in the dock at the City Court to answer \ charge of making false statements in Elation to his marriage. ' , , Prosecuting counsel stated that Dofsky courted Miss Ada Gertrude Sriglev, whom he met at. a dance four years .ago, being introduced to her as Alexander Molyneux. Subsequently he went to America, but returned last year, when the courtship was renewed, and the couple becamo engaged. Dofsky then told his fiancee that he was an American journalist working in England, and to bolster up this story he took the girl and her parents to the Liverpool Assizes and placed them in the distinguished strangers' gallery. He himself took his place in the press box, having stated that he was writing articles for an American journal. This deception, continued Mr. Smith, had the desired effect, and the couple wen married at a registry office. the ceremony Dofsky gave his name as Alexander Molyneux, and made the further false statement that he was a chartered accountant. He was unable to produce a wedding ring, saying that his mother had hidden the one he purchased, and a rirfg had to be borrowed. Two days after the wedding Dofsky's deceit was discovered, and his father, on being spoken to by a detective, described his son as a persistent liar. Dofsky's young wife obtained a legal separation, and the magistrates ordered the marriage certificate to be impounded. . t» r l Defending counsel said that Dofsky changed his name because he was afraid that if his fiancee discovered he was a Jew it might have affected her love for him. " I have tried hard to analyse the psychology of this man, who has a decent character,' observed counsel. " and I have come to the conclusion that he has an . inferiority complex about his, rtice and religion, and that is why he abandoned the name of Dofsky." Imposing a fine of £lO, or one month's imprisonment, the presiding magistrate told Dofsky, " Let this be a warning to you, and don't go gadding about the country any more representing yourself to be something you are not." -