LOVE AND LOANS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3306, 26 August 1911, Page 3

LOVE AND LOANS.

CHARGES OF MATRIMONIAL FRAUD. Remarkable allegations of fraud were beard at the Old Bailey the other day, when George William Lucid, alias George W. Leslie, 30, was indicted for obtaining £SO by .false pretences from Mary Jackson with intent to defraud. He Avas further charged with obtaining £3 10s by false pretences from Annie Sutton Cresswell, and with feloniously marrying Ethel Selfe. He pleaded not guilty. Prisoner is alleged to have advertised for a wife Avith money and answered matrimonial advertisements, by which means he got into correspondence with women. After proposals of .marriage, whilst posing is a Avidower, it is said that prisoner obtained money from the women. One of them Miss Jackson, said Mr Svmmons (prosecuting). lent prisoner sums of £3O and £2O after his statement that the money Avas to pay' off a mortgage -on his house property. Miss Jackson had not had her £SO back, she had not had the happy home, promised by prisoner, and she had not had marriage, because at the time he was paying attention to her he was a married man. There Avas also another case in Avhich prisoner Avas concerned, and tlie dates overlapped. The woman in the second case Avas Annie Sutton CressAvell, a cook. Prisoner was asking her for money pretty soon after he made her acquaintance, counsel added. In one letter he wrote: “Darling one, dearest one, —What I dread nmv is that I may not have enough cash on 'Friday morning to meet expenses. I suppose it is useless applying, Nancy, for a -little help. I think of you, near, every day, and many times every day. “If -on only knew my real feelings towards you it would fairly drive you off your head Avith pride. Darling, true, and faithful girl, be true- to your boy Avho loves vou so dearlv. —George.” “At the bottom,”... added counsel, “are three crosses which Avould touch us very deeply if there were not three crosses <ra> Miss Jack-son’s letter at the same time.” The trial 'was adjourned.