LIFE OF TRAGEDY
.MAN SENT TO PRISON AFTER INHERITING £66,000 LONDON, Sept. 17. A few days after learning that he had inherited £66,000 from his father. Keith Burfield, 20, a salesman, was sentenced at the Old Bailey to-day to nine months.' imprisonment for fraudulent conversion. His counsel said Burfield had never seen his father, and did not remember his mother, by whom he was placed in an institution when he was 18 months old. From the institution he was handed .over to a woman, who kept him in such a state that eventually he was removed from her charge and entrusted to Mrs. Burfield. Counsel added that Burfield was suffering from Addison's disease, as n result of which he had been unable to work since March. His only resources had been a relief payment of 32s 6d weekly, on which he had struggled to support his wife and child and to provide for an expected addition to the family.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19131, 28 September 1936, Page 5
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