JEWELS VALUED AT £7000.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 770, 19 March 1910, Page 5

JEWELS VALUED AT £7000.

. ■ ; -'♦ • ■-•; '■■■ ■ ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES. THE CHARGE AGAINST -"LA MILO." Bt Teleerapn—Press Association—Copyrieui '":■... London, March 17. Eggena and "La Milo" have been committed for trial. ■ Judging by the cross-examination of witnesses the defence will be that the prisoners obtained the jewels for tho purpose of selling them to the King of Portugal's suite during the. Royal visit to London. . ■ ; ' • ["Lα Milo," a music-hall artiste, Ferdinand Eggena, her husband, .and Percy Easton, a motor-car agent, were charged at the Bow Street Police Court, on February 8, with obtaining jewels to the valuo of X7OOO sterling by means of false pretences, from Mr. Wood, jeweller, of brook Street, London. It was alleged that Eggena represented himself as -the owner of twenty-iivo cars, obtained the jewels, and afterwards pawned.them on Lα Milo's behalf. Eggona had previously attempted to pawn a pearl necklace worth ,£30,000.] ' ;