TELEPHONE COURTSHIP ENDS IN CHARGE OF FALSE PRETENCES

Evening Star, Issue 26091, 3 May 1947, Page 7

TELEPHONE COURTSHIP ENDS IN CHARGE OF FALSE PRETENCES

(Rec. noon.) LONDON, May 2. Tottenham magistrates to-day heard what the prosecutor called “the strange story of L>a,/id Blake,” when slight, fair-headed Jean Ridge, aged 21, appeared on a charge of obtaining £9O by false pretences, . Tne prosecutor told the court how an “ Air Commodore David Blake ” conducted a friendship entirely by telephone with a nurse at , Tottenham Hospital, and ultimately proposed marriage. The prosecutor said the nurse never saw “ David,” but handed the money to “ his sister Jean ” the defendant—when she called at the hospital a few days after David's first telephone call. The nurse alleged she provided the money to enable her telephone lover to “ pay his divorced wife’s fare to America.” The hearing was adjourned.