LIVED WITH SQUATTERS

Shannon News, 31 July 1925, Page 1

LIVED WITH SQUATTERS

. . ♦ ARRESTED AS VAGRANT Melbourne deu-clives told a strange story when Ramsay .Murray, aged 55, a e;u-p<:nter. who was arrested at a select hotel, was charged -with vagrancy and remanded. Detectives stated that .acting on a w arrant, they '.called, at Scott’s Hotel, where Ramsay was staying' as a guest. According to information received from the Sydney police, some time has been spent tracing a, man who last December called on a -firm of Sydney solicitors and represented himself as an cider brother of a wealthy English family, seeking his younger brother, whom he believed to be in Australia. He wanted to give him his portion of the patrimony that had fallen to him. He stayed at Hie best luotels, lived most luxuriously, moved in the best society, and went through the marriage ceremony with a charming Sydney girl. To her he is alleged to have stated that he was a Queensand semimillionaire,

He paid £445 fi>r a, honeymoon cabin for the voyage to London, and gave her £250 towards her trousseau, both in cheques. Then he went to Adedaidn and later fame to Melbourne, " here be lived with Western District squatters and their wealthy sons at Scott's.

Detective Lynch said that Rarnsay Murray came to Melbourne and stayed at Scott’s. He owed £3 15s 2d for board and when arrested had Ss Sd. He wag drawing a soldier’s pension of £4 a week. He was wanted in Sydney, but particulars of the warrant were not available yet. Murray was remanded for a week, and a later remand to Sydney will be sought