ADELAIDE'S EARLS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 252, 16 June 1932, Page 6

ADELAIDE'S EARLS

TWO CLEVER SWINDLERS IMPOSING UPON SOCIETY. BOTH LAND IN GAOL. ADELAIDE, Monday. Perth has had its "Lord Thorn- j ton," a waiter who posed as an earl a and hoaxed society, and Adelaide, has had its local earls too — two of them. They both forestalled the King's Birthday honors list by several weeks. E "The Earl of Bailhache is now serving three months in Adelaide Gaol. ! For two years he had been on rations and living with his mother at Brighton. But for several weeks before he was arrested he had been living in smart Adelaide hotels. The change in his mode of life dated from an encounter with a girl on the beach at Brighton. He told 8 her his aunt was the wealthy Lady Bailhache, in England, and that he was heir to her. On the strength of the assuranee that he was expecting a large draft from his aunt, the "Earl," alias Raymond Keith Bailhache, 22, salesman, obtained £150 in instalments from this girl. He took her and other girls to din ner at fashionable city hotels and was arrested while dining with one of the girls. | "Secret Service Agent" j Then there was "The Earl of Eastwood." For six months many people knew his as a "viscount" closely connected with the Royal Family, and as a British Secret Service agent out here on duty. When police visited his room at Walkerville they found a dark green blazer and sheets of paper bearing a crest and' coat of arms with a lion rampant on either side. Police investigations led to his arrest on an indecency charge. In Court, Frank Temby, 28 salesman, admitted that he had said he was a Secret Service agent, had si?f * telephones in his office, and could ! switch on to Scotland Yard by wire less, while all the time he was work- i ing at a city hatter's. \ He pleaded guilty, and while await- | ing sentence is now hobnobbing with his brother "earl" in Adelaide Gaol.