(Special to Press Association.)
London, March 4.
Professor Blackie, who himself is a warm sympathiser with the crofters' agitation, says fchat Mrs Gordon Baillie is so clever that she woald deceive the Devil himself. She has ibeeji /ivingfor some years in great style, and 3ms &iu acted considerable attention as si woman of large means. She has now disappeared ,v,ery suddenly, and has left a large (number of debts unpaid. The detectives are ■searching for her with a warrant for her .arrest on a charge of fraud. Mrs Gordon ißaillie's mother earns faer living as a charwoman.
Melbourne, Karch 5
Mrs Gordon BalHie had not obtained any actual concessions of land from the Victorian Government on behalf of the crofters. She had applied for 70,000 acres at Wilson's Promontory, but left suddenly before completing arrangements, it being subsequently ascertained that she had victimised # n.umof faadewneifc
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Otago Witness, Issue 1894, 9 March 1888, Page 16
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