CAREER OF FRAUD

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 77, 27 June 1928, Page 3

CAREER OF FRAUD

TRAVELLER SENT TO GAOL. VICTIMISATION OF WOMEN. LONDON, May 15. A remarkable career of fraud ana deception was described when Cecil Hickman Levett, aged 55, a commercial traveller, was sentenced at Monmouthshire .Quarter Sessions, held at r»k, to three years' penal servitude for obtaining various sums of money by false, pretences. Levett, it was alleged, sold tickets for Is each which, he represented, entitled tradesmen to a certain form of compensation and to legal aid. It was stated thati he began his career as a dork in a solicitor's eince, joined the Drogcons and subsequently the Sussex ponstabulary. After seven years he was called upon to resign for deserting his wife and family. He afterwards obtained work in a solicitor's office, forged cheqes, and attempted to leave th c country with! a woman, but was arrested aboard a liner. After serving his sentence he became an insurance agent, ami was promoted superintendent, bun was dismissed owing to irregularities. "WHICH FAMILY." Again he deserted his wife and family, and went through a form of marriage with a married woman. He obtained another post as insurance agent, and was promoted district manager and presented with a gold watch by his employers. H e resigned to become an insurance broker, but committed further offences, and later went through a form of marriage with another woman, by whom he had throe children. Levett appc.ded for leniency for the sake of his wife and family. The Chairman: Winch wife and family ?