ACTRESS’S VALUABLES

Evening Star, Issue 18051, 19 August 1922, Page 2

ACTRESS’S VALUABLES

DAISY JEROME AS WITNESS. The shearing was continued at Sydney ■the other day of the charge against Cecile Lightening (who used to look after Miss Daisy Jerome’s clothes) of having stolen some of the actress's furs and valuables Captain 3a Touche, husband of Miss Daisy Jerome, admitted that while with his wife at Moss Vale last Juno ho had very little money. When accused came, to Moss Vale she had not enough, money to bring her boxes —nil she could bring was a.cockatoo. He did nob. get drank when he returned- from Melbourne and found

his wife bad gone to Moss Vale. He denied that he owed money for rent or to tradespeople in Sydney. Daisy Jerome, giving evidence, Hated that she did not receive any money from accused from the pawning of the articles described in the charge. She had never been . distressed financially, and had not asked accused to keep a bundle of pawn tickets for her so that her husband would not see them. Witness here asked the magistrate if she could sit down, and on being granted permission to do so sank into a (hair, adding “(lor strutli 1 , I'm tired.” siho asserted that she and her husband “lived like lighting cocks,” and added “ My old man has plenty of money.” Accused was committed for trial, bail beiiig allowed. 1