Once a prosperous solicitor who lived in style, danced at the best clubs, ran a bridge club in Knighisbridge, and maintained three women servants and' a valet at his £6,000 country house....
This was the history of a man of 53 who walked irom the Old Bailey dock to serve a sentence of seven years' penal servitude, l have known his firm during the whole time 1 have been in the profession, remarked Mr. Justice Goddard. 1 hate having to do this.
The solicitor nad converted £136,- 000 of mis clients' money and used it for wild speculation, and in other ways, states tne "News of the World."
According jo a police officer, par. Of the downfall of William Fielder Johnson, of Onslowgardens, W., was due to his association with women, who obtained large sums from him.
Johnson was a man of two personalities—the dignined lawyer by day and a playboy by night. Head waiters knew him as a lavish spender and an equally lavish tipper.
He was always certain of one ai the best tables in most of the expensive West-end restaurants. His private parties were always gay and sumptuous; his women friends beautiiul and well dressed.
After Johnson had been led away to his cell, Mrs, Irene Plumbly, the widow who, m 1935, sued him for breach of promise, and in two actions recovered damages against him, bore out the police theory with a personal knowledge of ten years' friendship with Johnson,
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