REAL LIFE VAMP.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 241, 8 October 1920, Page 5

REAL LIFE VAMP.

IR.S. BAMBERGER'S CAREER. '* X NUMBERLESS INTRIGUES. tf X LONDON, September 24. * 5 Tho conviction of Mrs. Bamberger, : j. ho was sentenced to nine months for j,y erjury in a divorce rase, has not fin- j _ ■hod 'the public interest in her case. ! hero arc leading articles in the morn- 'j, ig papers regarding her perjury in the j| ivorcc case, and the evening papers' j ews columns arc filled with udditional articulara of her remarkable career. „ Legal circles are agitated by the won- o erful defence, emotional and French, o ather than legal and English, made by lr. Cecil Hayes, the defending counsel. s iistantly raising him to the forefront of j, ho criminal bar. t No case had stirred London so since c hat of Billie Carlcton, owing to the c prisoner's numberless intrigue!) with 't, arious men, including Australian and g 'anadian officers, and Londoners of th« t j lighest position, and great wealth, and j \ ■specially owing to the mystery surounding the concealment of a name on he ground of its importance on tho ipplication of the prosecutor. Mrs. Bamberger was the daughter of in evangelist, Taylor, who died in South Vfric-a. Th'o girl returned to Engla-nd itagestruck, and when she was 13 deserted her home for the theatre. She became a Gaiety girl, and was R ippare'ntly leading a fast life until her'j uarriage to Mr. Bamberger, subscjuently resuming her old ways. £(iOOO FROM ADMIRER. 1 Evidence wa?. given that she receivedj« thousands of pounds from her admirer.-,; 1 3iic giving her £«000. Nevertheless, she j 1 was arrested and charged with com- ' i plitity in the robbing of a strangu t Frenchman, who was invited to her Hat.' i The Frenchman alleged that while 1 seated on a couch with Mrs. Bamberger, ' ii. second woman entered,- kissing him, * while Mrs. Bamberger rifled his pockets. < Both women were acquitted,'' Mrs. Bam- i 1 berger swearing later in the civil pro- '• ceedings that the other accused was her ' twin sister. This wa-s> part of the per- i jury to wJiiell her present conviction was i due. •» • The evidence proved that she was twice married, and a third marriage has i since been revealed. Witnesses also ■ swore that she had committed misron- | duct with at least three other men, but j Mrs. Bamberger made an affidavit tbat ' this was false, and explained that her admirers had made her gifts in anticipation of favours which she had not delivered. . - ' Tlie methods of % the defence worn | ultra-modern, and were reminiscent of a ) D. W. Griffith movie . production. The accused sobbed at the right time, and shrieked at the climax of the prosecutor's address, her anguish being aimed at the jury. Mrs. Bamberger, was daily photographed in dozens of positions, and movie operators were busy during each luncheon hour. She gave the widest publicity to her youth and beauty, with the evident intention of influencing tho public. Mr. Hayes, the defending counsel, asked the Co\irt not to throw on tho scrap-heap this dainty piece of Watteau china, and contended that her alleged purity was consistent with stories qf sex matters, which were always without logic. "A LEGAL SCAPEGOAT." He bitterly denounced Mr. Symonds, the accused's former fiancee, ,\vho give evidence that Mrs. Bumberger was his midtress," especially the fact that Symonds occupied a flat decorated with her money. He held that Mrs. Bamberger was being made the gcapegont for all divorce perjurers, and if everybody was treated the same, the witnesses in 40,000 dcI fended case in 40 years would also have been gaoled. Mrs. Bamberger is 29, but looks I younger. She is an unquestioned I beauty, possesses style, and is a wonderI ful Tlresser. Her acquaintances assert I tliafr she haR a great personality, and her j intellect charms women, as well as men. ! Her admirers were untiring, and were j apparently ready to convert a mistress j into a wife. I The "Times r, states that the third I marriage announced by the prosecutor I took place' at Gretna Green before tho ; blacksmith Nugent. "Mrs. Nugent, in an j interview, said that she remembered the couple, and- the bride was the most j beautiful she had seen. The bridegroom I was Michael Wvc, son of a wealthy i I Dublin man. ii "Both were stylishly dressed," said .' Mrs. Nujient," "and I have never seen \ higher hecK They said that they had , lived for 21 days in Scotland, and my ) husband performed \th© ceremony, and I L signed the certificate. ;! A message received last week stated i that Mrs. Bamberger had been sentenced Ito nine months' imprisonment for per- ! jury. She was arrested in April on a I charge of perjury, in consequence , of th« ! condemnation made by Sir Thoma* I Duko, President of the Divorce Division in rescinding a divorce decree made in , I 1017. The warrant charcred hcr'vrH* cpmmittine neriury by falsely swearing ' in the "Divorce Court that she had nevel " committed misconduct with Roberi 3 Webster Symonds; that she had nevei 3 committed misconduct with Ernes* 3 Steins and tbsit she , had never beci arrested in her life.