WOMAN FOR TRIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 291, 8 December 1937, Page 20

WOMAN FOR TRIAL.

BLACKMAIL ALLEGED.

WANTED £30 FUR COAT.

(Special.—By Air Mall.)

LONDON, November 12,

Allegation* that every time a man [tried to break his 10 years' association with a woman she threatened to communicato with his employer was made at Thames Police Court.

Phoebe do Goode, aged 41, a tailorees, was committed for trial on a charge of uttering a letter demanding £30 by menaces from Mr. "A."

! Mr. Edwin Clayton, prosecuting, said that on October 25 she told Mr. "A" she wanted a £30 fur coat and held np an envelope addressed to his firm. Next day he received the following letter:— "You promised 30 in all, no less, by Friday. You know you owe me a future. It is duo to me after being a true lifelong companion to you for 12 years and being engaged to be married to you. You have been wasting my years. . . .

"If you fail me and others interfere God will take them, because tho same thing happened before, and you know it. Besides, you would not like me to post that letter you saw, would you?" 4 Mr. "A" said that for some years he had been paying de Goode between £1 and £2 a week; latterly it had been £2.

Mr. Harris (magistrate): Out of £3 a week ?—Yes.

Mr. "A" denied that he had promised to marry do Goode, but he agreed that ho gave her money to buy rings worth £07. Ho bought furniture for her because she threatened to expose him. Do Goode said Mr. "A" wrote her "lovo letters for a bright future." "Ho posed as a rich man and was going to d<i (lie world for my widowed mother nnd !/' she said.