SOCIETY SCANDAL.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1924, Page 3

SOCIETY SCANDAL.

ON A HI CK SCALE. iI'MTKALIAN AMI N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. .Received this day at !).l;T a.m..> LONDON. May 2. The "Daily Express" Geneva correspondent states Mrs laintor, a handsome middle-aged American ol charming manner, was arrested tot frauds totalling twelve millions stcrlin". Records supplied from the chid European capital- .-how that Taintor and his wife arrived from New York in ISMS and joined an international gang of sw indlers. I hey lived like millionaire- at the expen-o ..f' their dupes. Taintor then worked Parts hotels independently till lO’-’l). when he wa- sentenced to two years imprisonment tor i-.-tting false cheque-. The sentence was later reduced to -i\ month- and deportation. laintor became engaged to a Countess whom lie per-ttaded to accompany him lo America with her lorutne. Mrs Taintor went t" IJru--e!s where she committed fraud- totalling one hundred thoii-und sterling within a year. <|,e wits arrested in Munich and taken to Brussels and sentenced to twe.’.e n'hs. 'When Itborv.ed Mrs Taintor went to Zurich with a retinue of servants and resumed her luxurious hotel social life, as a fascinating widow and self declared heiress. She found new victims becoming engaged separately to three of the wealthiest residents who showered presents upon her, before suspicions were Aroused,