IN FALSE NAME

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19569, 16 August 1933, Page 2

IN FALSE NAME

YOUNG MAN’S DECEPTION AT MARRIAGE USE OF BORROWED RING LONDON, June 29. Stated to have carried out an extraordinary scheme of deception in his courtship, Alexander Dofsky, aged twenty-four, of Liverpool, appeared in the dock at the City Court to answer a charge of making false statements in relation to his marriage. Prosecuting counsel stated that Dofsky courted Miss Ada Gertrude Srigley, whom he met at a dance four years ago, being introduced to her as Alexander Molyneux. Subsequently he went to America, but returned last year, when the courtship was renewed and the couple became engaged. Dofsky then told his fiancee that he was an American journalist working In England, and to bolster up this story he took the girl and her parents to the Liverpool Assizes and placed them in the distinguished strangers' gallery. He himself took his place in the Press box, having stated that he was writing articles for an American journal. This deception, continued Mr Smith, had the desired effect, and the couple were married at a registry office. At the ceremony Dofsky gave his name as Alexander Molyneux, and made the further false statement that he was a chartered accountant. He was unable to produce a wedding ring, saying that his mother had hidden the one he purchased, and a ring had to be borrowed. Two days after the wedding Dofsky’s deceit was discovered, and his father, on being spoken to by a detective, described his son as a persistent liar. Dofsky’s young wife obtained a legal separation, and the magistrates ordered the marriage certificate to be impounded. Imposing a fine of £lO, or one month’s imprisonment, the presiding magistrate told Dofsky, "Let this be a warning to you, and don’t go gadding about the country any more representing yourself to be something you are not.”