"LA MILO" NOT GUILTY

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 808, 4 May 1910, Page 5

"LA MILO" NOT GUILTY

her husband imprisoned. By Telegraph—Presa Associjvtion-Oopyrteht London, May 2. The trial has concluded of Ferdinand Eggena, his wife Pansy Eggena ("La Milo," • formerly. Pansy Montague), , and Percy. Holland Hasten, of the Motor HousOj Euston Road, who were charged with conspiring to obtain upwards' of .£BOOO worth of jewels by false pretences . froin Mr. Willinm Edward Wood, jeweller* of Brook Street, Hanover Square. Tho jowels, it iff alleged, were obtained on tho security of twenty-five motorcars stored fit the Motor. iHouso, which, it is further alleged, wore represented to be tho absolute property. of Eggena, but in respect of which only a deposit of had been paid.

The judge, 'in his summing-up, declared that the evidence against "Xa Milo" was insufficient. Boston and "I,a Milo" were acquitted, and Eggena was sentenced to t*cnty-onc months' imprisonment, with lkrd labour.

["La Milo," giving evidonco on her own behalf, said her income for three years was .CoUOO annually. She married Eggena at the Grand Hotel, Birmingham, nv December, 1908. Mr. Wood, the jewel lur alleged to havo been de! frauded, forced the jowols upon hor. e A , a diamond drop, valued at ,£30,000, which the ICaiscr was anxious to purchase.. Wood, witness stated, accompanied her to the Gaiety Theatre on the occasion of the King of Portugal's