THE CASE OF BRENDA STEWART CROSS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 192, 3 May 1918, Page 5

THE CASE OF BRENDA STEWART CROSS

MILLETT COMMITTED FOB TRIAL, Sydney, May 1. Bobsrt Millctt has boon committedjpr trial for conspiring in Juje, 1916, \wtA Bronda Stewart Cross, to cheat ami dcK George Began of large ,« money. The prosecution bta odtnat Bronda Cross was charge* ml «'° ? _ fmire in Now Zealand, but was aia application for WlradiHon failed. ' Brenda Stewart Cross aged 21 years, enco male was that the young woman had bean duped into signing certain Si papers relating to the mortgaging of Millett's house, while ignorant of the meaninjr of the provisions sot out. Sir Tnim Wndlav K.C., who appeared for acS/nllso&ed that a sinister mo. tivo had set the machinery of thy law in action after a lapse of nearly two vcars, on tho approach of an important New Zealand appeal case m which Cross was concerned. "I.'lio Magistral held that tho charge, which referred to large RUiiiß of money," was very vague and, moreover, was stale. Ho was of tho opinion that tho prosecution had not been mado in good faith, and Cross was diechargcrt absolutely.