PHANTOM MILLIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12991, 7 October 1905, Page 2 (Supplement)

PHANTOM MILLIONS.

A frailly-built, gentle-speaking woman, mimed Ruth Morgan, 53, who gave her occupation as that, of ai charwoman, was charged at the Mansion House with being a wandering lunatic. Til the previous week the old lady buttonholed Mr. Trotter, the assistant clerk, after the court was over, amd banded bin a letter in which she stated that she wished to give 10s to the Lord Mayor for the purpose of sending all the Egyptians out of the country. She gravely stated that there were 70,000.000 Egyptian's in Great Britain, and remarked that she had found from reading the Bible that 1 lie poverty and distress that existed in England was all owing' to the Egyptians, who had taken the bread out of the' months of the British workers. She handed 10s in v ; small silver—money which had evidently been laboriously worked for and carefully saved—to Mr. Trotter, who, much to her astonishment, gently declined to receive it, and suggested that she should take it to the inspector no Cloak La.Tie Police Station. On hearing her story the inspector sent her to Bow Infirmary. . Sir Horatio Harries (examining the certificate of Dr. Perriu, of Bow Infirmary): Where.is this twenty millions of money you speak off Accused: 1 have only got 10s now--(laughter)— - the whole of the money is in my mint'.. in '• California, at flan Francisco. Sir Horatio What- does the King of Italy owe you #-fj| million pounds for? Prisoner: . I 'don't know, but lie does—- left It-tome some »j years ago, bit I have never seen it.. (Laughter.) Unfortunately 1 sha'n't get th» X'jJ whole ; of my twenty millions from San Francisco, for twenty years. -The medical • certificate stated that the woman was hi-{'?v| sane, and the ildcrmau ordered her removal to Stone Asylum. . •.'/...■til