(PRESS ASSOCIATON.) THE RAPHAEL TRIAL JURY STOPS THE CASE.
LONDON, 16th October. At the "trial of Mrs. Marjorie Augusta Raphael, well-known in Australia, for alleged fraud and false pretences by obtaining credit at a leading hotel, also for obtaining £500 worth, of jewellery and using "it to pay her debts to a drapery firm, during cross-examination, Mrs. Raphael said that when Sir George Lewis suggested that she and her husband should go to Australia, - she said that her husband, who is now an officer in the Warwickshires, would not live in Australia, because he greatly disliked the 'Australians, and wrote a book entitled " God's Own Country," running down Australia, saying : "The birds have no song, the flowers no 6mell, - and the women no virtue." Her nerves were terrible. She, suggested going to Australia until the war was over, and that then her husband should come out, but her husband negatived that idea, saying that he might come home wounded. The jury stopped the cross-examination and acquitted the accused.
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 93, 18 October 1915, Page 8
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