LA MILO'S JEWELS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 66, 18 March 1910, Page 5

LA MILO'S JEWELS.

■_-' . 7 7 THE CHARGES OF fraud. (Received 9.5 a.m.) P3"M LONDON, March 17. iA Milo, of living statue fame, and her husband, Ferdinand Eggena, have been I committed for trial on a charge of ob- .- taining jewels by false pretences. ££ The cross-examination of witnesses 7 suggests that the defence will be that |l| prisoners obtained the jewels for the purpose of selling them to the King of r"Portugal's suite during the London visit. |JKi La Milo was at one time a chorus giri [11 in Melbourne. Her real name was Miss • tansy Montague, and she was the possessor of an ideal figure. In partner- ? M ship with Mr. Cruickshank, a Melbourne • " artist, she put on a "turn" in Austra- ; lasian theatres, appearing clad in tights and covered with bismuth powedr, in representations of famous statues, includ3. ing .that of the Venus de Milo, whence .her stage name came. She subsequently .went to London, where pulpit fulmina--7;-. demons. against her, caused her turn ~ to-become a regular furore, and she had \ another good advertisement when she app peared as Godiva, clad in a flaxen wig, in. the Coventry pageant. A host of J- * imitations sprang up, but La Milo conM tinued to draw a heavy salary. Recently '_. she-was arrested for being concerned' in I I frauds upon various jewellers, her hus- '" band representing himself as the owner , .of 28 motor cars, and getting £SOOO ■worth of jewels sent to him on this 37 pretence.