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MONDAY, AUGUST 1.1998

Telephone Hoax Blamed: Women Tell of Losses

A 25-YEAR-OLD fishmonger who appeared before the

Highgate magistrates recently was said to have been hoaxed by a telepkone message that he had been left a million pounds.

The fishmonger was Kenneth Walter Dodd, described as of Brent Way, Finchley. He was charged on remand with stealing as bailec a £49 refrigerator and a £37 radiogram.

There was a further charge of the stomp duly on the transfer of stealing, as ballet a 19-guineo Wire-the property. In that way he ob- less set.

lained from her £116.

There were also three charges of obtaining by false pretencca, with Intent to defraud, 116 from Mrs, Caroline Barrington, of Argyle Road, Finchley: £30 firm Mrs. Mary Bar- ker, of Hutton Road, Finchley, and £383 from Miss Gertrude Amelia Tillyer, of Woodbury Gardens, Fin-

He did, in fact, give her a chenue for £35,000 which he cunningly got back again' by means of producing two registered envelopes addressed to the Trustee

stee Department of the West- said he would post her cheque. minster Bank,

in one of which he

Mr. Barrington stated in evidence that Dodd, who at the time was still delivering fish to her, told her that an American lady had given him Mr. Vyvyan Wells (defending) said, £1,000,000. Her savings

were all Dodd was a married man with two gone. She had given Dodd ail she young children and

his wife was had. expecting another child this week.

ehley.

ADULATION

Mrs. Darker said Dodd ofered to

He was going to plead guilty to give her £350 within twenty days] the charges and the explanation he if she would give him 50. Rove was that he had been the victim She gave trim the money and be of a hoax. Someone telephoned to showed her a piece of paper, which him and told him he had been left he called a "boni," with her own name and the name of the West-

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I would be admitted that there muster Bank on it. It was filled in wine a time when Dodd knew that for £200. Later he offered to in- He had been honed. By then, how.crease it to £1,000. She never ever, people were adulating him and feived any money in return. he was in a thorough financial messi the result of borrowing mones uni the strength of the tegnev

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CAFT. BERTRAM

Captain Hans Bertram, promin- ent German pitoi-author, in order to prove to the work that it is possible to make an on-schedule round-the-world flight in a total clapsed time of nineteen days, boarded the "Philippine Clipper" at Hongkong on the next-to-the- Jant leg of fils Journey around the world back to Berlin,

Captain Bertram Bow from Berlin to Baghdad by Lufthansa, Bagh- dad to Bangkok by Air France, and Bangkok to Hongkong by Imperial Airways. After com- CHOSE LARGER "BOND"

pleting the trans-Pacific flight by by will proceed Cipper, he Miss Tillyer said Dodd produced

United Air Lines to New York to conneel

the with

Lufthansa trans Atlantic survey plane, "Nordmeer.”

one for £7,000 and one

Mr. C. Sharpe (prosecuting) and two "bonds. Is the work of a man who may for £10,000, which, his swish, bo tudi to, have been desperate but who certainly give away did not lack ingenuity. In one case on the and £50 on the other

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256 for the stum severe Anancial straits as the result and gave hun

cluty itis netlvitles, They elderly people who had known him; The story of his million-jouxt for- since he was a small boy, and who tune was se comation in Finchley, acfel- tristed bir

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Ducht went to Mrs. Barrington, Mrs Barker and Miss Tiliger and told them he had been left a million pounds on condilian that he first gave

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£25,000 CHEQUE

Jed Miss Tillyer, that she fully bos Beved he mad the money. The sud

had come from the widow of an American diamond magnate.

Mr Shupe referred to a stalement to the pollen in which Dodd explain jef that the telephone message statel

that a Mr Vokes had left him 4; allion

Dodel was alleged to have To Mrs. Barrington he promised Judded: "When

didn't 함으로

any £20,000, to which he added

two money I was a such a mess that houses and some stucks and shares. kept the story up." The only condition was thol she pold

The hearing was adjourned.

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Manila, Aug. 1

Hawall Clipper which vanished some-

This genial gentleman has had five books pubilkled, two of them having been translated into Eng- Bish One book is now a best seller in Germany.

After completing his fight he in- tends to write another book on the progress of eommercial' avia- tion, in which he will bring out As Future possibilities and bis sincere belief that the barriers confronting international trade and understanding are fasi being broken down by the rapid strides International air transport.

GERMANY'S DEMAND FOR COLONIES

"International Forces. At

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VE want our colonies back, thin

claim wil be repeated ngalmi and again in our densely populated. country," said Herr Krogmann, But-

The United States transport Meigs. gomaster of Hamburg, at a meeting has reported that no trace has yet of the Reich Colonial League. been found of the Pan-American Herr Krogmann referred to the Tokyo, Aug. 1 Dumel's correspondent at Keljo, where in mid-Pacific. The ship is "international forces at work," op- Koren, reports that the Soviets began proceeding to the Clipper's lust re-posed to a return of the colonies to construction of a new position near ported position after completing the

Germany, Shatinoping at 9.30 am, an Friday search in the new area in compliance suon after which additional

truops

with the US Navy's request.-. arrived, whereupon the Japanese! United Press, forces, which recently have been in- active.

believing the border to bei quiet, hastily advanced and repulsed¦ the Russians.

The Japanese then retired, hoping to avoid a further clash. However, the Soviets renewed the attack at 4) o'clock in the afternoon, when the Japanese again repulsed them.

Late on Friday night the Soviets began an offensive from Changku- feng. The Japanese counter-attacked and cleared the area at 5.40 a.m. on i -Sunday-United Press.

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Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklen- berg suld that by constructing a "co- lonial gullt lle" a moral basis for the taking away of the German colonies had been established by Germany's opponents. Those opponents belleved. they could make this pointable to the world by usking the League of Na- tions to hand over the German colonies on the mandatory system.

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herself excepting that she had fled Discobolus, carved by Myron in the The world-famous Greek statue through fear of the German secret sixth century B.C., has been sold by police, is in Mill Road Infirmary, its owner, Prince Lancellotti, to the Liverpool, after collapsing at a wo-Munich Art Museum for £50,000, it men's hostel.

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Of this sum the Italian Govern- she was under the influence of drugs,ment took £16,000 as its share in the the motron fetched a doctor, who profits. called in the police,

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She is not Jewish, but says she was portance attached to the transaction This goes to show the great Im- Imprisoned in Germany for an off by Germans and Italians.

ence connected with the Nazi rolly at Nuremberg.

[The statue of which there is a fine "I must not go back to Germany" copy in the British Museum, has been she told the police, "I am frightened. family, which is one of the oldest in the Lancellotti They will put me in prison again."

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Italy, since 1763, and has been housed

When she was put in prison in in the family palace.] Germany she was told that an Eng- lish Journalist had had some influence in the matter. She was eventually. released on parole, but was stil watched by the police.

PRACTISED WITCHCRAFT

Á sentence of one your's imprison- She said sho sailed for England ment was passed at Passat on Frau with a Czechoslovak passport, hoping Anna Streisinger, ព 50-year-old to see her English Journalist friend, widow, for practising witchcraft aff. but found he had gone to America,

adrcery.

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