ADVENTURESS ARRESTED.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8938, 2 October 1907, Page 1

ADVENTURESS ARRESTED.

TJio amazing career of the International adventuress, "the Hon. Eva Fox-Strangways," lias been terminated bj her arrest by Toronto detectives at the instance of the American police, ou a charge of grand larceny. Completely deceiving American society by posing as the daughter of the Earl of Ilchester, she lived at the rate of £IO,OOO a year, leaving everywhere behind her a trail of bogus cheques. Miss Fox-Strangways lias a chain of debts that extends from Londou ' through the continents toJNew York, and then to Philadelphia, Washington, Atlantic city, Baltimore, and Chicago. In the latter city she was the lion of the season, and when she was ill the wives of all the millionaire butchers and grain merchants in the city sent her delicacies. A beefpacker wanted her to marry him, and she escorted a Royal duko through the stockyards when lie visited Ciiicago. Four years ago she lived luxuriously in Montreal as the fiancee of an Australian millionaire, | who allowed her £SOO monthly, j Later this allowance was cut ofi. I

When arrested the girl was hiding under.the name of Margaret Sinclair. She "confessed to being Etta Strangways, the daughter of an English coastguard. Her funds were reduced U) a i'siugle penny, and her possessions lo a couple of dresses, and she was in a state verging on collapse. Visiting cards found in her trunk included those of prominent Americans, and also those of an Italian duke, of several titled English ladies, and of Sir Malcolm MacEachern and Lady MacEachorn, of Melbourne, Australia. There wa; also found a pile of counterfoils of cheques given at the Waldorf, the Park Avenue, the Manhattan, Savoy, and Holland ' Hotels in iNew York, and also at the Oohurg Hotel in Grosvenor Square, London. The cheques were chiefly on the Bank of England, the National Provincial Bank of England, and the Capital and Counties Bank. She had a letter of introduction to the *N"ew York Times, referring to her as the former editor and pub- j lisher of the Academy and another to ] the Ladies' Home Journal, in which the writer>alled her a kinswoman of j the Earl of Ilchester Another letter described her as travelling for George Newnes, Limited ; The trunk also contained manuscripts, one of them entitled "Fate's Rendering; or the Strange Adventures of a Woman Searching for Happiness. ''