THE RAPHAEL CASE
♦ FRAUD AND FALSE PRETENCES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, 14th October. In the Raphael case the defence urged there was no case for the jury. The defendant had hot given up her home; she was entitled to live somewhere at her husband's expense. Mrs. Raphael gave evidence that she and her husband were staying at an hotel when one night he came home intoxicated and created a disturbance. The following day, while she was away, her husband took his trunks and disappeared. She wae homeless and moneyless, and acting on a friend's advice went to another hotel. The jury intimated that fhey tiid not desire to hear further evidence, but the Judge said the defendant must be crossexamined. [Mrs. Majorie Augusta Raphael, well known in Australia, was committed for trial for alleged fraud and false pretences by obtaining credit at a leading hotel, also for obtaining £500 worth of jewelery and using it to pay her debts to a drapery firm. The evidence showed that accused was locked out of her hotel. Her husband filed a petition in bankruptcy in March.]
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 92, 16 October 1915, Page 7
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183THE RAPHAEL CASE Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 92, 16 October 1915, Page 7
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