SPANIARD’S WIFE AND RIVAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4473, 14 February 1917, Page 2

SPANIARD’S WIFE AND RIVAL.

THREAT TO THROW VXTROL For obtaining credit for £l6 12s Bd. bv fraud from the Albion Hotel, Eastbourne, sentence of six months’ imprisonment was passed at the Sussex Assizes upon Kathleen Davies, a fashionably dressed young lady, aged twenty-two. She is the wife ol a major in the Army, and the daughter of a man who once held a distinguished position. Mr Hornton Smith, who prosecuted, said that after staying at the hotel for a fortnight she left by the back door; Part of her luggage she handed out of the window of the writing room to a hoy whom she gave 5s for placing it in the cloak-room at the railway station. While at the hotel she lived very extravagantly, the bill showed 8s a d'av for champagne, and daily amounts for liquors, brandy and port. Mrs Davies said that she separated from her husband two years ago after a year of married life, and . about twelve months ago she met a Spaniard who allowed her money from £lO to £4O a week. When three months ago she found that the Spaniard was married she gave him up. Last September she was sitting in a taxicab which had: been held up by the traffic in Piccadilly when the Spaniard’s wife attacked her. Then she went to Eastbourne to the Albion Hot" el When she wrote to the Spaniard he replied that he could not send her any money for some weeks. At this stage the judge insisted that she should give the name and address of the Spaniard, and, after hesitation, she did so, adding, “I did not desire fiim to bo brought into the case.. As she could not get the money to pay the Hotel bill she became frightened and ffift for London, where she was subsequently arrested. She again appealed to the Spaniard while at Eastbourne Police Station,, and he called there and left 2s 6d for .her, saying he was finished with, tho affair. She was allowed out on hail and immediately wired the 2s 6d to him at his wife’s address, and added 6d as interest.