MARRIED FOR FRAUD

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 699, 27 November 1933, Page 7

MARRIED FOR FRAUD

FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL WEDS THREE MEN WITHIN TEN MONTHS. MEMBER OF SPANISH GANG. Only fourteen years of lage, Senora Inez Albaccio was recently arrested at Le Mans (France) on a charge of marrying three men within ten months, despite the fact that she was alreiady, under Spanish law, the wife ! of another man. The girl crossed the Franco-Spanish frontier at Hendaye last summer and , gave out that she was the daughter of the notorious Spandsh prisoner, 1 ' whose frauds are known the world j over. | She allegedly declared that whoi ever married hcr would have part I share in the fortune in Bank of EngI land notes deposited by her father i before his arrest at a railway station | in Paris. j It is averred that her first victim I was an Englishman, with whom she : went through a form of marriage on | the understanding that he was to de- [ fray all the expenses of reclaiming a j valuable cloakroom deposit and of an ; expedition to rescue her father from ; his Spanish prison. • She obtained several thousands of pounds from the Englishman after I the marriage ceremony, and together ; they set out for Paris. !! Whilst the trusting hushand was I claiming at the Gare d'Austerlitz the ! valise containing the supposed treaI sure the girl had vanished, and when ! the valise was opened it was found to contain nothing more valuable than ! a few old papers. At Le Mans the girl found two other victims, both French, with whom she went through marriage i ceremonies in different names, it is i asserted.

All three "husbands" lodged' eomplaints with th'e police, alleging false pretences. The 'girl is said to have made a statement to the police in which she admits being a member of the gang working the S.pianish prisoner fraud. She says, aecording to the police, that the gang had sent her into France to scrape acquaintance with likely victims in the Luxury Hotels and 'on trains between the frontier and Paris. The girl, ,at the time of her arrest, was in communication with another Englishman and it is averred had promised to go to England to marry | him if he could obtain th'e necessary landing permit.