DRAMA OF A SPOILT LIFE.

Evening Star, Issue 14636, 4 August 1911, Page 3

DRAMA OF A SPOILT LIFE.

After living tor yearn in affluence, and [luxury. Mrs Kllen RadeliiTe. 38, widow of ] a mining engineer, was said at the WestI minster Police Court on June 2 last to I have, stolen jewellery of considerable value I from ladies who wore shopping in the West Knd. Counsel .said that the aroused was arI rested at the. Army and Navy Stores for the theft of valuable, rings which a, lady had removed while she washed her hands,' j and Mrs Kadeliffe, who was fashionably | dretsed, wae found to have in her pesses- ; siou about 70 pawnbrokers' tickets, ninny relating to property of ?ae aggregate vsluo of hundreds of pounds which had been stolen in similar circumstances. Detective-sergeant Cornelius told the magistrate that the accused had been in a very good position, and had been the owner of a large house and other property at Maidenhead. Since bar arrest she had helped the police, and goods to the valuo of about £2OO lad been recovered. Witness had seen the Count-ess of Darnley, , one of the ladies who had lost property, j and understood from her that she was | prepared to assist the accused. ] On behalf of the prisoner Mr Curtis Bennett eaid she was married a.% tho early ace of 18 to a man of wealth and position. Six years ago he died, and left her well provided fpr, and with £B,OOO in cash, but, taking the bad advice of certain persons, she hid, to their material advantage, lost .ill her money and been made bankrupt. Left with four children and penniless, she one day took a purse from a counter, and that was the first step to her present position. Sentence was passed u£ Uu»& months in tins second divisioa.