Warrant issued for lover

Press, 27 May 1985, Page 11

Warrant issued for lover

NZPA-Reuter Providence, Rhode Island United States police have obtained a federal warrant for the arrest of the former lover of the socialite-finan-cier, Klaus von Bulow, on a charge of fleeing to avoid testifying at his trial for attempted murder. The warrant was issued yesterday by United States Magistrate Frederick Decesaris for the arrest of Alexandra Isles, who has been reported to be living somewhere in Europe. Isles’s testimony in the first trial of von Bulow on charges of trying to kill his

wife, Martha (Sunny) von Bulow, by injecting her with insulin in 1980 and 1981, damaged his case and helped lead to his conviction, court observers have said. That conviction was later overturned because of the way some evidence was gathered. The charge levelled against Isles carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a ?USSOOO ($11,000) fine. A lawyer for Mrs von Bulow’s children of a previous marriage said they would make “a humanitarian appeal for her to appear to do what she can do” to

assist von Bulow’s prosecution. Mrs von Bulow, a millionairess, remains in a coma in a New York Hospital. The lawyer, Thomas Connors, said officials “are 99.9 per cent certain” they know where Isles is living. Rhode Island officials had contacted Isles’ lawyer in Europe “and certain steps are being taken to procure her presence” at the retrial. The prosecutor, Henry Gemma, said that the State was now taking a number of new steps to locate the woman, steps that von Bulow’s lawyers argue should have been taken earlier.