£26,000 A YEAR.

Evening Star, Issue 14688, 4 October 1911, Page 10

£26,000 A YEAR.

A VOYAGE FROM AUSTRALIA,

STB-ANGE ALLEGATIONS,

[From Our Srecial Correspondent.]

LONDON, August 25. A strange story was related on Wednesday to Air Plow-den at Maryiebonc Police Court by Mrs Alary Elizabeth Foote, ox New Zealand, now living at Glenioch road. Hampstead, N.AA'., -aho prosecuted Airs Ethel Campbell, aged 23, of South Bide. Clapham Common, S.AV., on a charge of having by false and fraudulent pretences obtained ’ £l5O with intent to defraud. Mrs Foote said she and her daughter left Melbourne, Australia, on April 18. At Adelaide the prisoner, her husband, and their child .and nurse joined the ship. On the voyage she and the prisoner became friendly, and the latter told her that her father was Sir Richard Hunter, of Horley, Surrey, who was file Lord Chief Justice of England. She was coming to England to take over property which she liad inherited under her late father’s will at Horley. The prisoner represented that she was coming into an income of £ooo a week. AATien they arrived at Plymouth, said the witness, the prisoner obtained a newspaper and pointed out to the witurns the names of some of her horsee that, she said, had won races.

Air Plow-den; Did she say where her stables wore; Tho Witness: She told mo Mr Horatio Rottomley was looking after her horses. On June 11, added tho xvitness, she and her daughter stayed with the prisoner at tho Hotel Mefropole at Brighton. ’They all went out for a motor c;ir drive, and 10 minutes after their return the prisoner rushed into the witness’s room and said that during her absence her room had been broken into and a groat deal of her jewellery and other property had been stolen. She showed the witness a suit-case, ihe lock of which land been broken. When they returned to London, continued the witness, the prisoner reported the robbery t-o Scotland Yard, and next, day left for Brighton. Subsequently she coiled upon the witncfis jit Hu-mpstoad, and said that there had been a second robbery at tho Mctropole, -and the had loet £l6O and all her remaining jewellery. Among rlio things stolen were her husband's wnuh and chain. The prisoner said she was unable to pay her hotel bill, and asked the witness to iond her soiro money, offering her motor car as security. The witness stated that her son, having her money matters in hand, saw the- prisoner, who in the <-nd obtained from him a cheque lor £l5O. A uerk later the witness asked for the re turn of tho money, but the prit-oi.-er had never paid it. ..holer on, said the witness, she visited tho prisoner at Clapham, and there caw Air Campbell wearing the watch and chain he was supposed to have last. The witness called attention to it, and the prisoner admitted then that she had told her wrongly. .Since then, added xvitneas, she had found that the prisoner's father’s name, was Hallett, and that she had no interest in property at Horley. The prisoner was remanded, Air Plowden offering to admit her to bail in two sureties in £IOO or one of £250. i