SPANIARD'S WIFE AND RIVAL. RED TAPE ENTANGLEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 36, 10 February 1917, Page 15

SPANIARD'S WIFE AND RIVAL.

RED TAPE ENTANGLEMENTS.

THREAT TO THROW VITROIj. For obtaining credit for £M» 12/1 by fraud from the Albion Hotel, Eastbourne, sentence of six months' imprisonment was passed at the Sussex Assizes -upon Kathleen -Davies, a fashionably dressed young .woman, aged twenty-two. She is the wife of a major in the Army, and the daughter of a man who once held a distinguished position. ■Mr Horton Smith, who prosecuted, said that after staying, at tne -hotel for a fortnight she left by the back door. Part or her luggage she -handed out of the window of tae writing room to a boy whom she gave 0/ for .placing it In the cloak-room at the railway station. Willie at the hotel she lived very extravagantly, tie bill showing 8/ a day for champagne and dally amounts for liqueurs, ibrandy and port. Mrs Davies eaid she separated from her husband two years ago after a year's married life, and about twelve months ago she met a Spaniard wiho allowed her money varying from £10 to £10 a week. When three months ago eh* found that tne ■Spaniard was married ahe gave him up. Last September she was sitting la a taxlcab which had been held ap by the traffic in. Piccadilly wSien the Spaniard* wife attacked 'her and threatened to kill (her 'by throwing vitrol over her. Then she went to Eastbourne to the Albion Hotel. When she wrote to the .Spaniard he replied that he could not send her any money for some weeks. At this stage the Judge Insisted that ane should five tae name an* address at the Spaniard, and, after hesitation, ehe die co, adding, "i did not desire iMm to toe brought into the case."

As she could not geUthe money to pay the hotel 'bill she became frightened and left for London, where she was subsequently arrested. She again appealed to *he Spaniard while at .Eastbourne Police 'Station, and he called there and left 2/6 for Iher, saying he was finished with the affair. She was allowed out on 'ball ana immediately wired the 2/6 to him at his wife's address, and addei 6d a* interest,

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