LOVELY CROOK.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 June 1927, Page 9

LOVELY CROOK.

LONDON ADVENTURESS Will! HAD NO LEAD. GAOL ALTER LUXURY. LONDON, .Juno 12. Bt ma rkable ievelauons. or the life and cuarswr-ter of Josephine O’Dare, the beautiful daughter of an obscuae larmer, have been made bv George Poole, her aged butler, whom she cie- .. a tided of hi«s life’ s savings. O’Dare invaded 'West Rial oi London society on a career of crime. She was sentenced tin Wednesday to tour and a unit years’ imprisonment lor forging. •‘Whatever crimes O'Dare committed, site never was a coward,’ said Poole '•| have seen heir cornered and brutallv assaulted, and she did not Hindi. . , .... . ••Although she was afraid oi Davies (a confederate with whom she lived as man and wife), she always withstood him. Once he rushed Into Hat at midnight with a revolver in his hand, s'ruck her a smashing blow on the face and threatened to shoot us. ••Josephine said, “U-! deal with this madman.” , . -Later. I heard a terrible, struggle, eo I burst in the door, and lassoed and bound Davies. “O’Dare refused to call the polite. Once she hid in a wardrobe while live men were searching her flat. They assaulted me. Someone blow a police \vhistle and .Josephine' came out and told the police that it was only a practical joke, . •'1 ilrst met Josephine when j answered ail advertisement, ofiering a ra’rcnci'shin in a Western Australian ir.iit farm. She received me in an D-ienta fly-furnished iroont. dimly lit. 'he emphasised the wonderful pros-mv-ts of fruit fanniu.tr. Later I stood her security for £2400 to a moneylender. •'When asked to produce a horse with which she had stated she hoped tvi win the Derby, as an asset in hankrrprey. she told me to buy one lor t:N>. f refused. “Once the bailiffs occupied her flat for three weeks. hut she carried on with dinners and dances. -Her final bluff was ‘a Garden of Allah’ mannequin parade, tor which the drawing-room was transformed into an Oriental garden, crowded with *he cream of society watching a West End costumier’s display. “That afternoon she was declared bankrupt, and the details of her parentage became known.”