Bankrupt Peer

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 200, 12 November 1927, Page 1

Bankrupt Peer

Astonishing Fraud Charges Quarter of Million Missing Dy Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Received 9.15 a.m. LONDON, Friday. AN astonishing detail connected with the alleged frauds of Lord Terrington was revealed in a lawsuit in which Sir Harold Reckitt is seeking to recover from a motor firm £2OO which Terrington paid out of his (Reckitt’s) account.

SIR HAROLD RECKITT gave evidence that when he was recalled from India, Terrington, whom he had known since boyhood, and who had been acting as his attorney, admitted that he had drawn £47,000, though Reckitt later found that more than a quarter of a million was gone.

The case was adjourned.—A. and N.Z. A Boulogne cablegram of July 28 read as follows: The French authorities permitted Lord Terrington, who was detained at Boulogne on March 19, when on his way to England for examination in the Court of Bankruptcy, and later taken to hospital, to . leave the hospital. Lord Terrington was quietly married to his constant companion, Mrs. de Vere Humphrey, and then he promptly returned to the hospital. On March 19 last Lord Terrington, who had been absent on the Continent since July, when his creditors took proceedings in the Bankrupty Court in connection with debts amounting to £420,000, was detained at Boulogne when he was ./about to board a vessel for England.