NIGHT CLUB QUEEN
VICTIM OF RAGING EPIDEMIC
LON DO K, January 20, Mrs. Kate Meyrick, notorious “night club queen,” died, on .Thursday night of influenza at the .residence! of her scfn-in-iaw, tho Earl of KinnouU, in London.
Motber-jn-Jiaw of two peers, and frequent ininato of prisons, Mrs. Meyrick was believed to have died very, wealthy as a result of running sueees-! Rive'dubs to 'which'the youth of London flOckfed for years. ' , • ‘ i Her offences, for which she paid many thousands' of " pounds in fines besides' imprisonment, • -were" mainly the 11 selling pf intoxicants illegally, but in 1929 she was convicted of bribery and conspiracy)' for which she,received a sentence of iQt months at . hard labor.
Repeated penalties i did : not deter her and always .she renewed her law-break-ing, her .last prosecution being in May.,. 19J1,, for. selhqg intoxicants, without, a 1 license. , She. charged huge prices' ill her chib for''liquors..' ‘ * '. . In 1931' Mrs. . Meyrick gavo. her pro miSe" never to' run ; another j duty--; aiidi ishq ‘ kept it. ' ” -' ' ' ‘ ‘'.!; Her second son-in-law of the peerage is .Lord Do Clifford.'.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18026, 1 March 1933, Page 9
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177NIGHT CLUB QUEEN Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18026, 1 March 1933, Page 9
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