Convicted on charges of fraud and obtaining property under false pretenses, Morton Lawrence Baron, 25- year old unrecognized American, Was sentenced to six months' imprisonment yesterday by the First Special District Court. His request that he be allowed to leave Shanghai Eighth by the judge. by the first steamer was turned down
'The first charge concerns the defrauding of the' Paramount Hotel of $142.39 while the latter, the misappropriation of a gramophone and the obtaining by fraudulent means of £1 from a German Jewish refugee woman who arrived here on December 23.
Baron came to Shanghai in November, 1937 after leaving a litter of broken hearts in the wake of amorous and fraudulent adventures in Europe and' America. He repeated the offence in Shanghai and, charged with obtaining property funder false pretences from various people including many women, he was sentenced to one year's imprisonment.
He was released last December after serving his prison term but before the police could forget him, he offended his hotel management by being unable to pay his rent and board. He only paid $45 when he should pay $187.39 and wanted to clear out when he was arrested. During his detention, he was found to have also obtained £1 and a gramophone from Miss Bella Rosenzweig at the Customs Jetty when a German refugee boat arrived. He struck up friendship with her at the wharf and volunteered to look after her luggage. He did but he also ran away with the money and gramophone. which he never returned.
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