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Con Man, 69, Gets 10» Year Prison TermAdrian L. Dudley, 6!). who has spni' a good part of I he las'. /Ml ■ cars in peiiilcniiarics and jails, was sentenced to anolhcr prison crm yesterday.A motion for probation submitted cn behalf of ihc aged confidence man was denied by Superior Court Judge Robert 1. Miller, who sentenced him to a maximum 10-year term in slate prison,Dudley was convicted by a jury June 16 of §rand theft for his role in swindling a 50-year old Los Angeles widow out, of $90,000 at International Airport here in 1968,Probation Officer Lois L, McCarty described him in a repot. :o the court as a confidence man who embarked on a criminal care.*r in 192T ‘lie is a habitual criminal and does not wish to be rehabilitated. Miss McCarty said.She told the court that Dudley refused to cooperate with her 3nd said he would rather “go down fighting,The Los Angeles widow, Mrs. Dorothy Van Ness, testified during the trial that she had fallen in Jove 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 -ace swmdle. Mrs. Van Ness \v?s persuaded o put up $99,009 as a show of g-rd faith before 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 theft and conspiracy charges upon his completion of the prison term,
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San Mateo Times
San Mateo, California, US
Thu, Jul 01, 1971
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