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WANTED FOOD FOR WIFE t LANDLADY DEFRAUDED LONiDON, Feb. 2, A former Dean Of Perth, Henry Frederick Mercer, aged 67, was sent to prison to-day. He was sentenced to six months at Rhyl on a charge of defrauding his landlady with a false cheque. Mercer admitted other similar offences. The solicitor who defended him said that Mercer went to Australia in 1905 and became vicar of a church in Melbourne. Subsequently he became Dean of Perth and was chaplain to the Australian troops in 1915. He resigned and later took up a combatant commission. Later, he was a lecturer at a university in England.
Mercer, the solicitor said, descended to fraud in order to provide food for his wife and family after a long period of unemployment.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19880, 6 March 1939, Page 5
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