BACHELOR GIRL’S FRAUDS.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 785, 17 November 1922, Page 3

BACHELOR GIRL’S FRAUDS.

FATHER’S SCHEME FOR HER “INDEPENDENCE” FAILS. A “bachelor girl.” whose father made her an allowance of £4OO a year and permitted her to live in a London hotel with a girl friend in order to “teach her independence,” found! herself 'in the dock at the Old Bailey pecenUy on a charge of obtaining goods by false pretences. She was Isabel Cornish, a handsome, fashionably attired girl of 22 and she pleaded guilty to obtaining two pairs of silk stockings, a Louse, and a hat from various West London firms under false pretences. “I cannot punish the poor and needy if I allow the well-to-do to go scot free,”’ said Sir Ernest Wild, K-C., the Recorder, when be postponed sentence until next sessions, and “very possibly” to the November sessions, in order that the girl might realise the enormity of her oft'e.'iCe_ Mr Rowland Oliver, prosecuting, said) that Miss Corninsh went into the shops and ordered goods in the names of people who she knew, had accounts at tne shops, “The total value of the goods obtained,” said Mr Oliver, “was about £56., The girl went to a good school, and one of the names which she used in her frauds was that of Mrs Chigwell, her late schoolmistress. "Full restitution, including the payment of costs, had been made.” Mr Clements, defending, said that when! Miss Cornish was young her mother went into an asylum, and was th.e.re still. “The girl is not normal,,” urged Mr Clements. “On medical a/1 vice, which was about the worst that could have been given, she was allowed to live with a girl friend of her own age in a London hotel_ This was to teach her “independence,” and her father made her an allowance of £4OO a year” The Recoi'dlei\ in surprise : Four hundred pounds a year ? Mr Clements : Fes, to a week and £IOO oi more for ici to be dishonest, Mr Clements added that a man present in court was anxious to marry her. and her father proposed •to put her out of further temptation. The Recorder: Do vou suggest that her (punishment should be that she should) be taken straight to the altar? I cannot say ! have rnuen sympathy with a woman with £4OO a 3?ear who steals from shopkeepers.