DECEIVER OF WOMEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 388, 23 June 1928, Page 27

DECEIVER OF WOMEN

MAN OF MANY PARTS GETS THREE YEARS’ GAOL A remarkable career of fraud and deception was described when Cecil Rickman Levett, aged 55, a commercial traveller, was sentenced at Monmouthshire Quarter Sessions, held at Usk, 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 that he began his career as a clerk in a solicitor's office, joned the Dragoons and subsequently the Sussex Constabulary. After seven years he was called on to resign for deserting his wife and family. He afterwards obtained work in a solicitor's office, forged cheques, and attempted to leave the country with a woman, but was arrested on board a liner. After serving his sentence, he became an insurance agent, and was promoted superintendent, but 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. He resigned to become an insurance broker, but committed further ogences, and later went through a form of marriage with another woman, by whom he had three children. Levett appealed for leniency for the sake of his wife and family. The Chairman: Which wife and family?