COMMONWEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations)
"You have perpetrated a heartless fraud. . . . The name of a man who has adorned our English literature has been dishonored by his son. . . ."
Having spoken these words, a judge at Old Bailey Court, London, imposed sentence of "twelve months imprisonment without hard labor" last week upon Alfred Borys Conrad, who had just pleaded guilty to a charge of converting to his own use £1,100 ($5,346) entrusted to him to buy certain manuscripts of his late father, Novelist Joseph Conrad.
Mr. Richard Curie, literary...
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