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CHARGE OF FALSE PRETENCES. FORMERLY IN NEW ZEALAND. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) London, January 6. Supposedly born in Australia, Gerald Vladimir Crichton, alias Upjohn, falsely self-described as a nephew of Sir George Crichton, was sentenced at Marlborough Street to six months’ hard labour for incurring a debt of £8 8/- at a Dover Street Hotel by means of false pretences on Christmas Day. Another man paid the debt on January 2. Crichton said be came to England from Cap Ferrat to rebut a charge of plagiarism. A detective testified that- Crichton’s articles were cribbed. Crichton had been imprisoned for a week in Sydney in 1925, sentenced at Wellington for false pretences, and in Paris for vagabondage as a result of not paying for a champagne supper for cabaret girls.
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Southland Times, Issue 21288, 8 January 1931, Page 7
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