REVENGE OF A FAITHLESS LOVER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2084, 20 May 1907, Page 3

REVENGE OF A FAITHLESS LOVER.

GIRL’S AAIAZING CONFESSION. AVliat has every appearance of being a very grave miscarriage of justico, with features that recall in some respects the Beck case, was brought to light in London a few weeks ago in the hearing of a charge of perjury preferred against a young woman named Alillio Alarsli on her own confession. The perjury is alleged to have been commitetd during the trial in November at tlie Aliddlesex Sessions of a commercial traveller named Lewis for uttering a forged cheque. The principal witness against him was the

girl Alarsli, who swore that she had been with him on the night ho cashed the cheque. The defendant’s counsel attempted to show the weakness of her evidence by pointing out' its contradictory nature, but the chairman, Sir Ralph Littler, intorposed by warning counsel that no one would believe a word of such a defence. Counsel thereupon refused to cross-examine further, and as the chairman’s words had, in his opinion, - prejudiced the jury, and though Lewis denied all acquaintance with Alarsh, and produced five witnesses to prove an alibi, he was found guilty, and sentenced to three years’ liennl servitude. The sentence was reduced to fifteen months in the second division, and the man is still i gaol. ..

The trial has had an amazing sequel. The girl now states tliat she testified against Lewis to shield her lover, a man arrested on a charge' of cheque frauds, and, as Brady had left her, she desired to tell the truth. The facts of the matter came out when Alillie Alarlis, a good looking young woman, described as of Gobian’s Farm, Romford, Essex, was charged by order of the House Office with committing wilful and corrupt perjury in the course of evidence she gave at a trial at the Aliddlesex Sessions n November last.

She made a long crcumstantial statement of all the facts. The young woman declared that she casually made the acquaintance of tho young man, Duncan Brady, last June or July, when she was in service at Kilburn. Afterwards Brady met her almost daily, and they “walked out” together, -and he promised- .to marry her.

Once, when she was out with him in Hyde Park, he met Lewis, to whom she was introduced. She thought this was about the end of July, and it was the only occasion in her life that she saw him before she professed to identify him for the cheque offence charged him. She (the prisoner) was out with Brady on the night of the 29th September, and he wanted her to go to a wine merchant’s where he was known, to cash a cheque. She refused to do so, but did not object when Brady left her and said he should use her name. Half an hour later she again met Brady at Bronde-sbury-villas, and he asserted that Lewis had been with him, and told her that if there was any trouble she was to identify Lewis, and say that he had been out with her. As Brady promised to marry her in a short tmie she said she would, if necessary, do all this for his sake.

In some way pr other Lewis was arrested for tho forged cheque, and she picked Alim out at Willesden, and swore against him there at th ; sessions. Brady had since left her, and as he treated her so badly she ■went and picked him out when he was paraded with other men on another chequo charge. Brady, during his acquaintance, had borrowed her wages, and never repaid her.