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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1959,
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS George Dawson Tells PRINCESS SUGA
His Story
London.
George Dawson, the 49-year-old Cockney financier, recently told an Old Bailey jury the story of his life. Leaning his 16st, on the ledge of the dock, he told of his first deal soon after he left school. And he told of making £60,000 in a month.
Occasionally his stubby finger jabbed at the empty wit
ness-box or at the 420 document exhibits as he en- livened Day 25 of his marathon fraud trial with "my side of the story."
Sometimes he ebuckled
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GEORGE DAWSON .. when things were going well.
he reminisced, coiled the I GREW MILLIONS OF CARROTS
police superintendent. F parchment-faced something."
Dawson, wearing a crumpled grey bull, several times leaned down for a whispered consulta- tion with one of the other five men in the dock with him, all of whom plead not guilty,
Three times Judge Carl Aarvold Interrupted him to say he was going off the point. But Dawson continues his statement today.
He got to his feet at the end of the prosecution case, shaved aside a chair beaped with papers, and began story.
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He said he left school at 15, became an apprentice In o sports business but loft to fo on his own in the serap business,
He went to a brewery Maidstone and bought and scrap metal in his father's name, look one load away and in his first deol earned £200 to £300.
from the General Company he "got for the sale of buses."
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"I found out all about
the
man who was responsible for selling them. I found out he was religious-1 am puiling my cards on the table, mem- bers of the jury.
Christian
* bought the Herald or something, and when he came to see me I put the. best case to him.
"I told him I employed some discharged soldiers and
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would have to sack them if did not get the buses. That was not quite true.
My buses
He came back from the South of France and was sentenced to nino months' gaol for conspiracy and nine months for stealing lorry-"a sort of technical thing."
Dawson sald he could not have sold the stolen jarry because at the time he was on board the Queen Mary.
My trouble
He got an early release from prison and learned that the
Irish Government were scrap ping old vehicles,
He sent an Irishman to buy the vehicles for £5 each.
"If the war had started
1037 Instead of 1989, I would never have been in any trouble. That altered my whole life, because once a man is sentenced, be is sentenced for life.
kennt.
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charged this little boy together ter Hotel, but instead of keep with me with stesting this ing it for the purchase I spent it in the bar. I borrowed af- £20 from the doorman and went to duernsey,
"I later found the receipt for other the stuff in a suit which came back from the cleaners and the chargo was thrown out”
Dawson said he then bought a 400-pers farm In Devon and got another of 200 acres,
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put in 200 acres of potatoes. I never knew there for Was £10 en acre subsidy potatoes. 1 put in carrots.
"I had millions of carrots
and tons of potatoes, but it was said that coming from London knew about the subsidy and there was jealousy.
My brass
"There was thousands of tons of scrap brass and copper. I bought this for nothing-£2 per. ton when the price then was £80 a ton.
IS IDOL OF JAPANESE GIRLS
Tokyo.
Princess Suga who last week became engaged to a poor but high born ́bank clerk had been the centre of speculation that she would, follow her brother's example and wed a commoner. The vivacious 20-year-old Princess is the youngest daughter of Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagake, and she has become the idol of young women In Japan today.
The 23-year-old Crown Prince Akihito broke a tradition more than 2,000 years old when he chose & commoner for his bride,
travelling abroad, she would like to marry a man working In some first-raio company with branches overseas, The suller had to be a "man
Princess Suga became the of virture"-in "heart, op- Arst Japanese Princess to enter pearance and demeanour." Ho English literature at Gokuchuin and come from a family of con- a University. She is studying had to be interested in sports (Peers) University.
siderable social and economic Tall, by Japanese standards, standing. and slender, the 5 feet 4 inch Princess is also a good tennis player.
Just as Prince Akihito often went out with his class- mates, Princem Suga Ülken lo go shopping. Sometimes tier older sisters accompany her. She likes to escape from the watchful eyes of chaperones,
Her "I borrowed 20,000 on a
16 shopping, however,
stores man fa pay for it and told him {confined to department I would give
receipts him £12,000. (where she can obtain. Within a month I had £60,000. for what she buys She must "Then there was the jealousy submit all receipts to the court again. I had not used my own authorities, nome. I had used the London
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"I bought 09 p.c. of the buses
and It's not spelt S-T-E-A-L pipes from the L.G.O.C, and in 1938 I was paying £1,000 a week in wages."
He bought a lorry and worked from carly morning until late at night. He got another lorry.
My trams
"My lorry driver scratched a trom and the LC.C. sued saying they wanted a new tram, That nearly ruined me, but by the time I had settled with the L.C.C. 1 knew something about trams and began buying them.
"I sold the motors to the ipsies for running their round Gouts. Then I started buying old buses."
Dawson said he reconditioned buses and other vehicles and In 1937 his turnover £1,000,000.
Was
Moal of the vehicles were the heavy type, and when a out limiting new law came vehicles and loads to 12 tons,
"When I went to guol, vehicles which were sold for 46 would later have fetched £1,000 each.”
His competitors were jealour and tried to stop him getting the vehicles back to England. He was selling them
le realised they would be brigades.
ire
worth very little. He adver tised them for sale on purchase.
hire purchase "One day the people woke up and the haulage contractors woke up and found they were ruined because the
vehicles were useless because of the new law. I got rid of over £500,000-worth of vehicles and When the London Passenger the finance company went Transport Board - look over broke."
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"A certain policeman
came round and I made a noise to the policeman. I upset him and that was when all my troubles
started."
My army life
Dawson spid he went Into the Army and after one day Jind an accident and was in hos- pital for alx months.
When he came out he bought some perfume. About that time his house was burgled and then ke was charged with stealing. the scent.
"I had a litle bay of 18 at Dulwich College then. He had a couple of litle bottles of this scent and the police
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'N athletolte or girl odhlete "And so, by an analysis of wamed the other day the estimates, one is forced to that if she took part in a three- the conclusion--_____**
was
legged race al à charity dance "One moment, I see that she would lose her amateur Councillor Mrs Bolling has her status because she might find violin with her. Would she give herself competing with profes- us a tune?" sional dancers, and because a three-legged race at a danco does not count as an othictly contest.
(Cries of "Gipsy__Melody." "Yourning," "Raff's Cavatina.”)
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The next thing, I could not get any railway facilities. went to Plymouth and saw Navy and they bought them. got the Army to help me.
"It was again this sort of jealoney and the agricultural committee took my farm, although I produced more potatoes than anyone else in that area. I was thrown out of the farm, so I came back to London and that was 'just about the time when the war In Germany ended.” Dawson said he heard about a lot of material in Guernsey.
"I borrowed £20 from house detective of the Dorches
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Princess Suga kes Jazz and members of the jury," he joked, classical music. She
Dawson said the police stop-dances at parties held at the ped him. He went to Glouces Crown Prince's palace. Like her ter and did a deal with the brother, the Princess Is fond of Americans.
many other sports as well
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He brought vehicles from the tennis. These include basket- Americans at 25 when they [ball, volleyball, and skiing. were worth £2,000. Ho started She bringing the vehicles out, but it University was not long before the police came down.
"It the
Americans were
Prince Akihito onee loid his classmates jokingly "She is too good for any of you bad boys."
But
HA toga wrong- Hisanagu Shimazu was one of the "bad boys.”
"We Must
Tell The
Old Man,"
They Said
Bologna.
dog called Pachito who was his bosom pal.
Gakushuln every day in ☎ An old man living in à pen- black saloon car, accompanied sioners home here had a by a lady-in-walling. According to her associates, stupid enough to sell me vehicles she likes to read novels and she at ten shillings a ton, it was seems to have a special: liking. nothing to do with the police, among classical works, for these Agahy I had the Fraud Squad written in the 19th century. She round me."
is inking private lessoris Li Eng-
sald of Supply Hah and English conversation
The Ministry
stopped him.
He
weat to Norway and bought "everything there
was.
Around came a man who said
at home.
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The old man always gave part of his food to the dog.
One day the director of the homo
Pachito was a nuisance and had him put in a local kernel for toch dogs.
She has tutors for plano les- each day with food.
The old man vialted the dog
a writ was issued against me sons and flower arrangement. for £60,000 for introducing me Like her mother, Empress to the goods in Norway. Another Nagako, she loves roses. Jen wanted £10,000 or a deal )
X Suga's Mance, Hisanaga was going to do next day for Shimazu, 25, does not quite fit 20,000
vehicles
in Germany the picture public opinion had would not go through."
painted of the princess's future husband.
Dawson said he was told if ho did not pay over the mency the authorities would be tolā who he was.
My tax
The portali was of a "man of considerable megna" 10. that she could be assured of ker
a life in keeping with birib and upbringing. Whon a Princers is betrothed, Dawson said he was not liable she is granted a special allow
to pay the £300,000 tax which ance as a form of dowry. Tho had been claimed from him exact amount varies, depending because he had lost something upon the value of the money at like that sum of money.
the time the grant is mado. The Speaking of orange juice he present regulation stipulates bought from
the Ministry
that she is entitled to receive up Food, he said the Ministry told
to 30,000,000
(£30,000 him that the tulco in the pabe
sterling gel was worth spending money on.
But it went down in strength. Wanted Diplomat
have
He had been given to under-
She might, in practice, receiva stand that I would-last--twolva-10,000,000yen (£15,000)—and years,
20,000,000 yon ⋅ (£20,000). Dawson said the prosecution The muitor head to know all about the millions of decent job. Princess Buga pounds worth of buslacas he originally wanted to marry had done previously. But all diplomat they could find were a few But after studying the various "miserable Instances" of people effects her birth would have on who had lost money,
He denied frauds in orange Jufoe, landing craft, and rail». way bogies involving £118,000. ;
the work of her future husband, she dropped the iden
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A 52-year-old night watch- mon, Reginald Smith, staged his own “murder”” before he fell 89 feet to his death from the roof of a seaside store, □ Black- pool inquest was told. According to witnesses ho phened the Fire Brigade and' told them to call the police os two men he had discovered in the stockroom were threa~ tening him...
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