FEMALE SWINDLERS.
CHARGED WITH FALSE PliE-
TEXCE'S
'United Press Association —Copyright LONDON. Feb. 8.
Violet Charlesworth, and her mother have been arrested on charges of obtaining money at Derby by false pretences. [Violet Charlesworth attended before Mr. Registrar Linklater in the Court of Bankruptcy for public examination in October last. She stated that her bankruptcy was due to extravagant living and Stock Exchange speculation. In reply to questions as to representations she had made to creditors that at 25 j’ears of age she would be entitled to a fortune, she said she had been informed by a Mr. Alexander Macdonald whom she had met in Edinburgh that he would give her £155,000. There was no one to whom she could refer to confirm the existence of this Mr. Macdonald. He had never given her the promised money, nor made her an allowance. She admitted that a statement made by her, when endeavoring to obtain advances, that she was in receipt of an allowance from trustees was untrue. She denied that an alleged motor car accident was a • device to get away from her creditors.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2732, 10 February 1910, Page 5
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184FEMALE SWINDLERS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2732, 10 February 1910, Page 5
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