Sentenced for Fraud for Cribbing from Magazines Arthur Percival Alfred Twinn, also known as Gordon Carroll, a 21-year-old salesman, of Shrewsbury Road, East Ham, London, who was alleged to have obtained money from publishers for stories which he did not write, was sent to prison at East Ham recently, states the "Manchester Guardian."
He pleaded guilty to four charges of obtaining, by false pretences, from two publishing firms, D. C. Thomson and Ca., Ltd., and C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd, two sums of £15 and one of £12 10s. and attempting to obtain £12 10s., by falsely pretending that ihe manuscripts of stories were his own original and unpublished work. He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment on each count, the sentences to run concurrently.
The titles of the four stories concerned were stated to be "She Ran the Risk and Paid the Price," "The Judas at the Rectory," "The Temptress in Their Home," and "The Shamed Girl of Holgate Farm."
Mr. Donald McIntyre, prosecuting, said that Twinn extracted from magazines published by the prosectors stories which he typed out He sometimes altered the actual title and always altered the actual names of the characters. Messrs. Thomson found that the story "She Ran the Risk and Paid the Price" was identical with the story entitled "Behind Her Smile the Danger Lurked" which appeared in "The Miracle" in 1936.
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