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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 had 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 oractically ruined them.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23707, 14 January 1939, Page 14
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