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Con Man, 69, Gets 10-Year Prison PermAdrian L. Dudley, 69, who has spent a good part of the las.. 50 •. oars in penitentiaries and jails, was sentenced to another prison term yesterday.A motion for probation submitted on behalf of the aged confidence man was denied by Superior Court Judge Robert D. Miiier, who sentenced him to a maximum 50-year term in state prison.Dudley was convicted by a jury June !6 of grand 1hefl for bis* rule in swindling a 50* year old Los Angeles widow out of 590.000 at International Airport here m 1968,Probation Officer Lois L. McCarty described him in a report to the court as a confidenceman who embarked on a criminal career in 1921.“He is a habitual criminal and does not wish to be rehabilitated,” Miss McCarty said.She told the court that Dudley refused to cooperate with Iwr and said he would rather “go down figh'ing.The Los Angeles widow, Mrs. Dorothy Van Ness, testified during the trial lhat she had fallen in love with a man she knew as James R. Billings, who was in reality Dudley's alleged partner in crime, Eugene F. Londos. Dudley was convicted of plotting with Londos and another man and a woman in a horse race swindle. Mrs. Van Ness was persuaded to lt;put up $90,000 ! as a show of good faith before 1 collecting a $150,000 bet she was led to believe they had won.Londos presently is serving time in the federal prison in Atlanta for possession of counterfeit money. He is scheduled to be returned here to face grand 'heft and conspiracy charges ; upon bis completion of the prison term.
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San Mateo Times
San Mateo, California, US
Thu, Jul 01, 1971
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