EX-COLONEL GAOLED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 74, 20 December 1937, Page 8

EX-COLONEL GAOLED

Wife Will Be Waiting for His Release ROMANTIC WEDDING A* good-looking dark-eyed woman wil! oe waiting at the prison gates when ex* Lieut.-Col. James Christie, sentenced to 12 months' for fraud at the Loudon Sessions, is released. She is Mrs Eileen Ohristie, his wift;, whom, it was stated at the time otf his conviction, he met and married in 1935. "Everybody tells me X am mad to stick to him," she told a reporter, "but I love him and I am sure that there is no other woman in his life. •'1 was running a beauty salon in tha West End when Col. Christie earae to me for some weight-reducing exereises. "He told me all about his lii'e in China and how he had been trading in guns. I fell in love with him at first sight, although he is considerably older than I am. "Three days after he knew me he proposed to me and I accepted him. We were married three weeks after we first met. "We were terribly happy, and I had no idea that he was engaged in any illicit activities. "We lived in London for three months, and I kept up my business as a beauty specialist. Then he said he had to go to Paris to cliuch "some arms deal, and I went with him. '•We stayed in Paris for three months, stopping in the best hotels ard meeting crowds of people. "He seemed to know everyone in Paris. He told me that the arms dcal was going all right, but then he got very short of money because the deal did not go through as fast as he expected. — "I sold up my business in London and gave him the money. Still the deal did not go through, and we were practically penniless. "Eventually we quarrelled, and I went back to stay with my parents in Hampstead. They had to pay my fare back because I had no money. "This was six months after we were married. I did not see him again. Twelve months later I read that he had been arrested for fraud. It was a terrible blow to me. "To-night I am writing to him, telliug him that I will wait fcr him and «ake ft homo for him.