TRIAL OF MRS, RAPHAEL
THE OASE FOR THE DEFENCE. By Telegraph—Press Ass.ociation-OopyrigM (Rec. October 15, 0.0 p.m.) j London, October 14. In tho Raphael caso the defence urged there was no case for the jury- • 1 " 0 defendant had not given up her home; she was entitled to live somewhere at iier husband's expense. Mrs Raphael gave evidence that she and lier husband were staying at an hotel 'when one night lie came noma intoxicated, and created a disturbance, The following day, while she wasaway, her husband took his trunks and disappeared. She was homeless- and moneyless, and acting on a friends advice went to another hotel. Tho jury intimated that' they did not desiro to hear further evidence, but the Judge said the defendaut must he crossCX [Mrs. CCl ' Majorio 'Augusta Raphael, well known in Australia, was committed for trial for alleged fraud and false pretences by obtaining, credit at, a leading hotel; also for obtaining £000 worth of l jewellery and using it to pay her debts to a drapery firm. The evidence £bow« ed that accused was locked out of her hotel. Her husband filed a petition in bankruptcy in March.]
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2594, 16 October 1915, Page 6
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194TRIAL OF MRS, RAPHAEL Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2594, 16 October 1915, Page 6
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