"DICKY' NEVILL'S 'SISTER."

NZ Truth, Issue 140, 22 February 1908, Page 7

"DICKY' NEVILL'S 'SISTER."

1.. •■•' ■ ■ ' I i ' 7Z^ , .■■•• •. A Bogus Aristocrat. . Her East Melbourne Episodes. With reference to the lady wko, according to cabled information, was ■under -the name of Rose Rolinabn, -charged at the Westminsier (London) Police Court with having ated the Countess of Cottenham uriT der her original name of Larty Rose Nevill (as duly m last week's "Truth"), a peculiar story is told. Just aboiit Hie time when the episode, as already recounted, occurred, there appeared m a swell East Melbourne hash-house a lady who proclaimed herself to be the sister of l ' l Dicky" Nevill, A.D..C. to Lords . Brassey and Tennyson. But she did not annouii.ee that the family relationship included Lord William Nevill, who, also about that time, had been sentenced at the Old Bailey to "twelve months' hard" for AN AUDACIOUS FRAUD, which consisted m changing; the jewels m a bag tor an equivalent weight of coal; or stone. The information concerning this lady (which was pubr lished' m Melbourne "Truth" .nearly fifteen months ago) was as follows: ".'A delectable damsel, said to be a relative to Lord William Nevdir, lived a double life ih East Melbourne. She put up at a swell hash-house m East Melbourne, and for long periods, at, a stfretoh, she would be as discreet, as respectable, as decorous and restrain^ ed as a well-bred young woman shoulki be. Then she would break out, and for weeks on end she would .be m a . : . . GREY-STREET BAGNIO / But one day, 'she. ordered a costume (she always had plenty of money) .at a fashionable draper's m Bourke-stre^t,-and -gave the Grey place as her address! For some .reason the;parcel was sent -there, but finally it was taken, to and .delivered at her regular . abode. The stupid shop people, however, had not removed the original label.- , She was bowled out, for - the respectable boardinghouse keeper knew what sort Of a place the , Grey-street house was;' - L Thus "Truth", was on the mark many months agOi, and- it would be interesting to know whether the accused .m the London ; Court is one and the same with the heroine of that parti[cular. ihcidentt - ' ' :-