CHARGE OF FRAUD.
TITLED LADY'S OFFENCE
Bv Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, Marcli 14.
Lady Ida Sitwell was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, and Julian Field, eighteen, and Oliver Herbert were acquitted on charges of conspiracy to defraud Miss Dobbs ,of £6OOO.
Lady Sitwell, in cross-examina-tion, said that her husband several times previously had paid her debts. She admitted that sho had asked her son, an officer in a crack regiment, to induce his fellow officers to back her bills, and that she had promised to use her family influence to get men elected to the Marlborough Club, and women, including Miss Dobbs, into society. Lady Sitwell borrowed £'l4s from her servants.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16806, 16 March 1915, Page 6
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110CHARGE OF FRAUD. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16806, 16 March 1915, Page 6
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