LADY OF TITLE SENT TO GAOL
—. —o CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD STORY OF EXTRAVAGANCE (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) London, Marcli 14.' Lady Ida Sitwell (wife of Sir George Peresby Sitivell, Bart-., and a daughter e of the first Earl of Londesborough) has I been sentenced to three months' impris- r onment, Julian Field to eighteen months', while Oliver Herbert was ac- 11 quitted, on a charge of conspiracy to de- a fraud Miss Dobbs of £6000. c Lady Sitwell, -under cross-examination. ■' said r,ha.t her husband had several J" times previously paid- her debts. She admitted that she had asked her son, who is an officer in a crack regiment, to f induce, his fellow-officers to back her bills, and had promised to use her a family influence to get men elected to the Marlborough Club, anil women (including Miss Dobbs) in society. Lndy Sitwoll borrowed £145 from her servants. .
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2410, 16 March 1915, Page 6
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147LADY OF TITLE SENT TO GAOL Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2410, 16 March 1915, Page 6
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