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The Globe and Traveller. Monday 16 Oct 1905
Page 3 Column 1
EXTRAVAGANCE AND FRAUD.
The trial concluded on Saturday, at Clerkenwell Sessions, of Guy Gregory Harper READE (26), who was said to have passed as the “Hon. G. H. READE,” of Sunnylands, Park-gardens, Bath, and who was accused of having incurred debts and liabilities to West-end tradesmen by fraud. The trial was commenced on Thursday, when it was stated that the accused was of good family, and had been educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He had studied law as a member of one of the Inns of Court. At college he got into debt, kept racehorses, and lived extravagantly out of college. He had betted and speculated heavily, one half-year's turn-over at the National Provincial Bank, at Bath, being estimated at £82,366. He lived with his aunts at Bath. When in town he stayed at the Metropole or the Albemarle. Knowing that he had no money to meet his cheques, he drew several and handed them to the prosecutors in exchange for jewellery. In August last he was adjudicated bankrupt, with liabilities £13,053, and assets nil. - The accused denied that he intended to defraud. Some of the jewellery was pawned soon after its receipt. He based his claim to the title of Honourable on a grandfather's right to a dormant peerage in Ireland. He admitted that he had obtained without payment £1,200 worth of jewellery. - He was found guilty on three charges. - He was sentenced to three months in the second division.
<NOTES: Guy Gregory Harper READE son of Jones Harper READE and Maria Henrietta GREGORY, married Florence Amy PERRAM>