SENT TO GAOL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20106, 13 May 1935, Page 5

SENT TO GAOL

DUKE OF MANCHESTER GUILTY OF FALSE PRETENCES United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, May 10. The Duke of Manchester was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment on two charges of false pretences. He was charged v/ith obtaining £650 by false pretences from Thomas Sutton, a wealthy London pawnbroker and jeweller, and his manager, Walter Lawlor, both of whom have since died. The prosecution alleged that the Duke had obtained sums of £4OO and £250 by pawning jewellery, falsely representing that it belonged to him. The jewellery comprised heirlooms which had been left to him by his mother on trust, by which it could be lent to the Duke’s first and second wives. Sir Curtis Bennett, for the defence, declared that Sutton’s executors had initiated the prosecution two years after the pawning of the jewellery. The Duke of Manchester gave evidence emphatically denying that he had any intention to defraud, and declared that he was prepared now to redeem the jewels and pay interest. He bowed to the Judge when he was sentenced, and betrayed no emotion.

LOCKED UP IN CELL DUKE IN FAMOUS PRISON United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received May 12, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 11. Warders took the Duke of Manchester in a taxi cab to Wormwood Scrubs Prison, where the usual routine was observed. His belongings were inventoried and wrapped in a parcel. He underwent a medical examination, was given a mug, a prayer book and a Bible and locked in a cell. [The Duke of Manchester, who is 58, was married in 1900 to a wealthy American heiress, who divorced him in 1931. His heir, Viscount Mandeville, is married to a Melbourne girl. His second son, Lord Edward Montagu, recently made an unsuccessful attempt to enlist in the French Foreign Legion.]