FALSE PRETENSES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9715, 10 February 1910, Page 5

FALSE PRETENSES

LA MILO AND OTHERS AT BOW STREET. CHARGE OF OBTAINING JEWELLERY. PRISONERS REMANDED. Received February 9„ 8.5 a.m. LONDON, February 8 La Milo, a music hall artist-, Ferdinand Eggena, her husband, and Percy Easton, a motor-car agent, have been charged at the Bow Street Police Court with obtaining jewel's to the value of £7,000 sterling by mea< a of false pretences, from Mr Wood, jeweller, of Brook Street, London.

It was alleged that Eggena represented himself as the owner of twenty-five cars, obtained the jewels, and afterwards pawned them on La Milo's behaif. Eggena had previously attempted to pawn a pearl necklace worth ; £30,000. The prison ers were remanded. HJggena waa allowed bail in the sura of £2,000; Easton was ordered to find recognisances in the same amount; while the bail for La Milo was fixed at £SOO. "La Milo" will', be well remembered in New Zealand, where her artistic act of presenting represent-' : ations of antique statuary first rei cieved a boom when on the duller i circuit in 1905. "La Milo," who is a ' Melbourne girl, Pansy Montague, and for some time one of Williamson's "show" girls, took her act to ■ England, where it was at once a great success, but caused much controversy, and was not allowed to be > done in some towns. "La Milo" I also distinguished herself by enact- » ingthe role ol Lady Godiva in a » Coventry pageant.