BETRAYED BY A WOMAN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 146, 12 August 1911, Page 7

BETRAYED BY A WOMAN.

A CLERK WHO STOLE £9200. Edward Lee, a naval paymaster’s clerk, who was arrested in Buffalo, U.S.A. recently, ■: charged with the from tha-?]ial>attleship -‘lGeorgic, owes his , Capture to 1 *• >b(^ trayal by a woman oh whom he lavished the money. Thcyiiaval authorities, aided by the . seqet . service and., special agents of the Department of. Justice, as well as by the American ‘consular and diplomatic service, wore on the trail of Lee since four days after ho mysteriously left the Georgia, which was then with the Atlantic fleet at winter manoeuvres in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Although the safe of the Georgia had been smashed, the pay clerk had four hours’ start before ‘the robbery was discovered. It had taken place during the night at a time when the engines were under way, and the necessary noise would not attract attention. How Lee got ashore never became known. Next morning, when Lee did not show up, and Paymaster John W. Morse went to open the cafe, he found the door broken and all the funds gone. The money was mostly in bills of large denomination, which had just been received from Washington for payment of the men on the second squadron, of which the Georgia was tho flagship. Although every train and boat was watched for Lee, it developed after wauls lie must have been a day of two isi Havana. Under an assumed name he left a golden .trail at Miami and Tampa, Sia., where lie “did” the resort hotels, and then! made a dash across the States into Canada! After spending some time in Toronto he went to Buffalo, and from there he was trailed to Europe. Apparently be bad only recently returned to Buffalo. While in Toronto lie met a girl with whom be became infatuated, and upon whom lie spent thousands of dcilnvs. He confided in her. and she confided in her brother. Tho brother confided in the Navy Department, and this really led to bis capture.