AIDE TO “MR A”

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 December 1924, Page 5

AIDE TO “MR A”

ROMANTIC CAREER

WELL KNOWN IN IRELAND. SUDDEN PROSPERITY. ur cable—press association —copybioht. Received Dec. 3, 11 a.m LONDON, Dec. 2. The Daily Mail says the arrested aide-de-camp suddenly left a West End hotel a month ago, and possessed practically a world-wide passport. He was born in Ireland and ran a small racing stable in Ireland. He was well-known and popular on the turf. He later lived in the East. His surprising ease in picking up Indian dialects attracted the notice of the potentate (“Mr. A”), whom he met at the end of the war, when Americans and others were trying to establish business propositions in the potentate’s territory. After the Robinson incident in Paris the aide-de-camp was compelled to leave his employer. Previous to that he was low in funds, but subsequently lived lavishly. Interviewed, Arthur said he had voluntarily communicated to the British Embassy in Paris that he was reto England to clear his name of the scandalpus charges launched against him.—Sydney Sun Cable.

AIDE-DE-CAMP ARRESTED

CHARGE OF -RECEIVING.

m, ~ ' LONDON, Dec. i. ine aide-de-camp wanted in connecF l the bank case was arre-sted in Paris. He held a temporary commission in the artillery during the war, and reached the rank of acting-captain! He served in India and Mesopotamia, had a wide, knowledge of the East, and had been there twice since ho left the service/ He is engaged to marry an American girl staying at^Paris. Ihe aide-de-camp was ar-osfed by British detectives, who brought- hnn Irom the office of the British Tourist Agency in the Champs Elysees, where he was employed, to the police hoadquaiters. He is detained there pending an agreement regarding the arrest- between the • British Embassy and the Minister of the Interior. The charge mentioned in the warrant is of receiving a cheque for £l.-0,000 which Was stolen abroad. The arrested man is described as a captain, aged 42. He was accompanied by a colonel, whose name has not been disclosed, am 1 , will be handed over to the British authorities to-morrow.

H is expected that Mr Justice Darling will hear legal argument in the hank case to-day.