A DANGEROUS WOMAN.
CONOOCTS A DAMAGING STORY. Times and Sydney Sun .Services. London, May 1. EdiitOi Melville, aged 23. was charged at the Marylebone Police Court wi t th perjury. Counsel stated tliat Hugh McKean met her in Leicester Squaro and subsequently ended the acquaintance. This annoyed her. and she commenced to annoy him with letters, telegrams and visits to 'his house and his friends' ■bouses, culminating in the alle«ation that McKean was the father of a child she expected. She. obtained a summons and brought .a female child to court siiid gave, evidence that it was lieif, and that McKean was its father. Gross-examined, she refused to State precisely where the child was bom. The summons was dismissed, and it was subsequently found that it was iher sister's child which she had borrowed for the purpose of exhibiting it in Court. She was remanded.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 284, 4 May 1914, Page 5
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145A DANGEROUS WOMAN. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 284, 4 May 1914, Page 5
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