IMPERSONATION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 113, 5 February 1908, Page 7

IMPERSONATION.

COTTENHAM CASE. , ACCUSED GETS OFF LIGHTLY. lir lEi.EattAm— rnEss association—corißlonT. London, February 3. lloso Robinson, ■ who impersonated Rose Countess of Cottenhmn (daughter of tho Countess of Abergavenny), was bouiid over to ooillo up for sentence when, balled oil, .on her promising not to repeat the annoyance. "MISS ROSE NEVILL," At" tho first hearing of-the caso.Roso Robinton was dußcflbsd as a ."fashioiinbly-attired woman of thirty." The Countess of Cottenhmn testified that .■Robinson masqueraded in lid' liamo. in Melbourne. She had been annovetl for years by, .Australians calling who claimed acquaintance. ■ The "Sydney: Morning Herald" says that "in 1901 there was a 'Miss Rose Novill' staying at one of the leading residential establishments* in' Melbourne.' She is supposed to bo identical with the Rose Robinson who is referred to in the above cable. message. *Miss Nevill' is iemembered as a handsome dashing woman of about thirty .years of age, very well dressed, who attended race meetings, smoked cigarettes, carried a walking stick, and who behaved, herself generally ill an emancipated if not exactly .disreputable manlier, but there was soifle hiystery nbout'.hoK ' "To account for: this * slio would assume tho Oirs ' of.'grando daiflp,' and say. sho was a liioinber of a great English family, who, to amuse herself, wag travelling as simple Miss Nevill..; ,!'lri strictest confidence ''sho would feometihipfivtofer'tq ■ ihy; father, '.Lord. Aborgaventiy,:and.to ''Dicky—oil,' that's my brother, Lord Richard you; know,' and to an Imposing circle of,-aristocratic connections and friends. ■ ': r i' .., . "She. was - not successful) -however; \tn securing,an'. entree into;'soCiety in Melbourne, hnd she received 'a /stfohg .hint that ; it would' .be very inj Udioious'for her to present herself fit Government House. -Miss Rose Nevill came to Melbourne : ffotil Western Australia, nild returned l there subsequently. After that, nothing seems to he known of lief movements."