GIRL IMPOSTER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 14 September 1907, Page 4

GIRL IMPOSTER.

o I -r\i;i/s d.uouthr" ditks new i YORK. New York, July 25. A beautiful vmmj; Englishwoman, re-i)i-(dentine; herself to l)f tho. Hon. Eva I'ux-StrnnV'ways, daughter of Lord 11ehcstcr after pl-ivim.' a prominent role in American -_-■■ i ; :■■■ }> - suddenly dis'ch'xpio ami imp-Id '"ills amoiint.Nao niiinv thousands of dollars. Tinliiiisof this remarkably clever inmost,, include all the- most prominent lmtcls i in New York, many of the big department .tores, ; ,ud several ladies of social

Kor months the bogus daughf"r of lord llehestcr successfully duped New | York. Well travelled, highly c<tu<-at■■■!. f:ishioii;ililv dressed, and exceedingly ..ni.ious and tactful in manner, she r : >.silv "aincd tho "oiid graces of Auu'ii- «.;,„ 'society leaders, who confess to an amiable weakness for European aristocrats, She lirst appeared at the 'Waldorf Astoria Hotel last autumn, bill in some way the management got wind of her falsi''pretensions and requested hello change her abode. Then she went to the Savoy Park-avenue, Westminster, and Manhattan hotels, and as she appeared to be an intimate friend of the ,\slors, Vandcrbilts, and others, readily obtained prolonged credit. I Though seemingly wealthy, she prol'ess,.(l eager ambition to turn her talents to practical account, and therefore accepted an cnuagpnu'iit from the TSonrd of Education as a lecturer in public school*. llcecntly she visited Philadelphia, and there disappeared. Detectives employed by the hotels and department stores at which she left wo'rlhle-- cheques for largo amounts are now vainly Peeking to solve the mystery of le'r identity.