“ADVENTURE OF LONDON”

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 May 1931, Page 9

“ADVENTURE OF LONDON”

POLICE COURT SEQUEL. LONDON, March 22. “I suppose the adventure of London had very much gone to my head,” said a young actress, wife of a provincial actor, in admitting at Marylebone yesterday that she had been ‘frisky” and “rather Bohemian” since she camel from Blackpool to seek an engagement. Before the magistrate was Herbert Crossley Newman, a salesman, of Gloucester Place, W., who was accused of stealing £2l in notes from the room of Mrs Nancy Hamilton, at Albany Street, Regent’s ~Park. Mrs Hamilton, who said her husband was touring in the provinces, told the magistrate that in January she came to London to find an engage? ment. She met Newman at a hotel, where she was having tea. He spoke to her.

Mr Hay Halkett asked her if, as a woman of the world, she did not know it was a risky thing to take up with strange people. Mrs Hamilton: Well, I spoke to him on the excitement of London and so on. I didn’t know Loudon: I know it now better than I did. Continuing, Mrs Hamilton said Newman offered to procure clothing for her at greatly reduced prices. Afterwards he called on her, and while he was at her flat one day she went from the room for a few moments. After he had gone she missed £2l from her handbag, which was on the table. ’ She did. not go to the police, but six weeks later she met Newman at the Cafe Royal and gave him in charge.

Cross-examined by Mr Lawrence Vine, who defended, Mrs Hamilton said the only reason she invited Newman to her room was because he had promised to get her a shawl at a reduced price." She saw no harm in it, as she had the room partly for business. She admitted that a man friend in the theatrical business was in her room the night before she lost the money, and that he stayed until the early hours of the morning. He did not stay the night. Mr Vine: Did you tell the* accused person that he had? —No, I said I ha,d been frisky: I meant that I had been rather Bohemian.

Why did you tell him you had had a man there? —Well, I suppose the adventure of London had gone very much to my head. Newman, in evidence, said his mother, who lived at Guildford, allowed him £5 a week while he was out of employment. He absolutely denied having taken the money. The second time he was at her flat she told him she had a man staying with her the previous night, and he replied that in that case he did not like being With her, and he' left half an hour later. / z f Mr Hay Halkett said the case was only one of grave'suspicion, and Newman would be discharged.