WHERE BANKS ARE MORE OBLIGING

Chronicle (Levin), 17 July 1947, Page 5

WHERE BANKS ARE MORE OBLIGING

Received Wednesdav, 8.20 p.m. XEW YORK, Julv 15. Lady Iris Mountbatten was arrestea todav on a fugitive warrant c-harging her with passing bad cheques in Washington. Lady Iris told the police slie did not think she was eommitting a crime. Bhe explained that when customers overdraw their account in Fngland the banks usually honour tlie cheques by permitting an overdraft. Lady Iris is a tliird cousin of Iving George Sixth and has been in Xew York for several months, She gave her oecupation as a publicity agent. The police went to her Park Avenue anartment today and read to her a 'warrant charging her with writing a baa chet[ue for 88 dollars 95 cents for the purchase of a dress in a Washington shop. The warrant also charged that she passed two additional worthless j cheques for about 100 dollars.. Lady Iris was taken to the police station to be "fingerprinted and photographed. The British Consul, Sir Francis Evans, went to the police station and talked with her. The Chief Magistrate,- Mr. Fdward Broniberger, sitting in chambers, placed her on parole in the custody of 'the British Consul and her attorney, Mr. Arthur Barker, who told rejtorters: " Everytliing will be straigthened out irt Washington. It is merely a misunderstandmg between the American and British law. ' ' Lady Iris's full name is Iris Victoria Boatriee Grace Mountbatten O'Mallev. She is now aged 27. She was married in 1941 to Captain Hamilton .()..'Mal(ey; of the Irisli Guards, whom she lat'er divorced.