CHARLATAN OR BENEFACTOR

Otago Witness, Issue 3714, 19 May 1925, Page 23

CHARLATAN OR BENEFACTOR

HOMER LANE’S APPEAL. SOME AMAZING LETTERS. LONDON. May 14. Amazing letters were read at the hearing of the appeal by Horner Tyrrell Lane against his sentence of deportation. The court was crowded by fashionably dressed people. Sir Curtis Bennett, for the police, contended that the letters from women found at Lane’s flat could only mean that indecency had occurred during Lane's treatment of patients. One letter, signed “The Devil,” from a girl aged 24, was *ead os follows: “A hundred times you told my pal you loved her. You did not love her. You were merely amused by ner. Where did you get the motor-car money? Despite my absolute disapproval she gave back your rotten promise to pay two cheques of £SOO and £IOOO. You liave just taken her money to buy youTself a car. I think you are a great hypocrite. ’ Counsel said the girl really wrote of herself. The same day the same girl, signing herself “god,” wrote: “Dearest, I am

Several shooting parties at the lake re* port having lost a number of ducks through eels (savs the Wairarapa Age). One instance is reported and vouched for, where three ducks were dragged under almost as soon as they touched the water. Oxen and sheep fatten better in company than wont kept alone.