FORMER CHRISTCHURCH MAN IS SENT TO GAOL.
Upjohn, Who Posed As Nephew Of Sir G. Crichton, Gets Six Months. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright." (Received January 7, 12.30 p.m.) 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 eight guineas at a Dover Street hotel by means of false pretences on Christmas Day. Another man paid a debt on January 2. Crichton said that he 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 and was sentenced in Wellington for false pretences and in Paris for vagabondage as a result of not paying for a champagne supper for cabaret girls. Upjohn, Crichton’s real name, was formerly a resident of Christchurch. Episodes in his career are told in paragraphs under the heading People and Then Doings ” on page 6 of this issue.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19271, 7 January 1931, Page 1
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