TOD SLOAN DEPORTED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 19, 22 January 1916, Page 15

TOD SLOAN DEPORTED.

WITH ACTRESS FRIEND. By an order of the Home Secretary under the Aliens' Restriction Act, Tod Sloan, the American jockey, and his companion, MileD"Herlys, a young French revue actress, have heen deported from the United Kingdom. The allegation on which tie order was issued was that by encouraging young officers and others to gamble and drink in

their-flat at Bedford Court Mansions, Loudon, W.C., the couple were guilty of conduct detrimental to the public service, and were " undesirahle aliens." The Act gives the Some Secretary power to sign an order for the removal of persons in these circumstances, and it.has been exercised in regard to 6ome scores of individuals. ■ •Mile. D'Herlys, a handsome brunette of 2-J years,'recently appeared In the French revue at the Garrlck Theatre. Tod Sloan left Liverpool for America in the liner Adriatic. His passage had been taken for steerage, but when he got on board he transferred to first-class. In an

interview he said: " I shall talk when I get to America." . . . . .. ' Mile. DlHerlys left for (France, detectives escorting her, to the train at Victoria. Tod Sloan is now 41. He was born in Indiana, and flrs-t came Into, prominence as a rider In the United States in lSai. 'On March 21, 189", he had five mounts "in California, and won them ell,' and in. one weefc won is races out of 29.in,which he rode. He first came to England in 1897 to ride St Cloud 11. His advent coincided with the use of the starting-gate on English racecourses. In'lS9B his wonderful run of successes made his name a household word, and for many years he must, ±aye been making from f 15.000 to £20.000 a year. All this Vanished when he had his license withdrawn.