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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 31, 1938.
999 REASONS TO
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MRS. TANFIELD'S
£10,000
JEWELS: £11,000 COTTAGE
Why She
Had £2,700
END ROMANCE
Fiancee Asked for
One-Gets £400
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Dublin,
THIRTY-YEARS-OLD Dublin bunting min, who described his engage mont no "a trial run" and eventually told is flaneou ha bad 000 good ronsons why it should end, wan orifere in the High Court recently to
$400 pay damages, with coats, for brauch of promine.
This mim was awarded to amartly dressed Min, Ivy Edyth Himmendinger, nind asted 80.
Monkstown.
In 1999 the frontoid was bought and follower to foxhounds, of for Chain. That was arranged by Langford-terrace, her husband, 27,000 being mixed by mortga on the property,
|| Mra. "Tanfeld untrood that this bod led cheen in blank at her ins band's request, frequently to or to ut timmy.
County Dublin.
The defendant, Ir. Osmond Dixon. a handsome commeretat traveller, of Westminster-road, Foxrock, County Arked about her gombing nelly). Dublin, donted that he promised to Miss Simmendinger, a d tles, Mra. Tanfold agreed that her marry account showed But ahe Innd won | P pleaded alternatively that ny al-
1037 £1,500 sier Janiary,
leged promise Was rescinded by matual consent, “I had a system at chemin de fer," she declared. "I consistently won." Mr. E. C. Micks, for Miss S'mmen- Two or three days after her hus-dinger, said Mr. Dixon's stand.rd of band's arrest pho leorned of the living was fairly high and the court Habitles in her statement of affairs, would see that "he did himself fallv
Is it a fact that you merely signed
well. uny documents your husband put be- fore you?-Exactly.
Mrs. Tanfeld agreed that Mr. Max Gerson, whom she had known for about 10 years, was chown as a
of affairs,
cottage that cost £11,000; friend when she reached the court creditor for C300 in her statement
her jewels, worth £10,000; her gambling "system" that won £1,500; a banker's draft for £2,700 that she
In £1 Notes cashed in £1 notes....
for her publle examination.
MARRIED IN 1926
At the request of her husband he had found a purchaser for White Pince.
Mr. Bruce Park: Did you want to dispose of the properly without the creditors becoming aware of it?
When Miss Simmendinger was 20 she and her sister went to Worthing and started a business as women's costumiers.
Mr. Dixon used to visit them there, and after she had spent a holiday n Ireland In 1030 he wrote proposing marriage. When she came over for the cub-hunting season in October he gave her six rings from which to choose.
Dixon referred to "a really
In one letter, said Mr. Micks, Mr. Luper fox-hunt yesterday" and mentioned that newcomers at the meeting in- the top drawer from Galway." cluded two girls "very much out of
On February he wrote, "Ycu may as well have the plan facts you don't seem to have read my pre- vious letters correcuy.
Examined by Mr. C. Bruce Pork. the Omeial Receiver, che said she married Stanley Willam Tanfield in New York in 1920. Before that she was an actress partly dependent on No. her parents.
After payment of the mortgage, Her husband never gave At the end she wept.
her asho received £2,700 by Axed allowance. He always paid the draft, which was gashed at a bank banker's MRS. MADELINE TAN-İrested," she said in a trembling
"When my husband was ar-out-goings. They came to England in Lombard Street in £1 notes.
in 1926. FIELD, formerly of volec, "I returned every single the nature of your husband's busi- Mr. Bruce Park: Did you know
"WHY NOTES 7” White Place, Taplow, Bucks, thing I had to him. I think he ass?-No, I never troubled to ask it in El
Mr. Bruce Park: Why did you take
notes That is rather told the Official Receiver in
raised money on it.
bbn. Some was In 1932 she acquired the lease of to hear it?
long story. Ha you the patience pawned."
Orkney London Bankruptcy Court
Later in the letter he remarked, "I Taplow now Mrs. Tanfeld, who wore a black known as White Place. She paid show a little more
Mr. Registrar Parton: You should always consider engagements ir al recently of her country vell, was accompanied by a women about £200 a year. Fermerly she ness. You appear to be enjoying later."
and a "pill box" hat and nothing for the lease. The rent was are not impressing me as a
restraint. You runs, and no doubt you will agree it wit is better to and out scener man yourself.
Mrs. Tanfield: I um not.
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Mr. Bruce Park: Why did you Miss Simmendinger, giving evi- draw the money in £1 notes?-dence, said she and Mr. Dixon were found that detectives were chasing horn in the same road and were the me and, on the previous day, they; same age. were slow at the bank in cashing the cheque. I hud made arrangements He said there were 999 good reasons
In February she went to see him. WE WILL PROLONG OUR BUSINESS HOURS TO 11 P.M. TO-DAY to go to France. When I went to why the engagement should end. the bank the next morning they kept She told him, "Never mind t me a long time. I was highly an-good reasons, give me one." He then noved and said I wanted it in £1, said he had changed his mind.. notes.
Mr. Fitzgerald, for Mr. Dixon, ra'd Why should, the fact that detec- his client had no savings, and the tives were following you make you! outside value of his income was bo- want to draw it in £1 notes?--I just tween £500 and £600 a year. wanted to give them something to He was made to feel that in some think about.
way he was not regarded as a de
It was not done so that their dis-cirable son-in-law, and felt it would posal could not be traced in any not be fair to keep Miss Simmend.n- way?-Indeed not.
ger waiting for two or three years In the hope that his financial post- tion would improve.
LOOKED TO HUSBAND
The money was handed to her hus- band, except about £200, "enough to take myself to France," on April
4.
Mr. Dixen Bald that the hunting cost him only about £1 a week. *
She looked to her husband to pay may be I shall have to adjourn your the creditors.
exumination sine die."
Mrs. Tenfield agreed that
in
Why did you 07-I wanted to take my children away from every January 1937, hor assets were thing. It was close to my husband's valued at £21,975. trial.
Mr. Raeburn: Is it right that that Replying to Mr. W. A. L. Bar-included £10,000 worth bura, counsel for the trustee, Mrs. Iery? Yes.
of jewel- Tanfield sald she had given away It was at this stage that Mrs. Tan- Jewellery which cost £1,166, "and field broke down and began to cry. not £11,660.**
Questioned later by Mr. I. Jacobs, Mr. Raeburn: You know that there counsel for Mr. Gerson, she agreed Is about £10,000 to be accounted for that Mr. Gerson was to receive a since January last year; what has commission on the sale of While happened to 147
Place. She denied that the sale was
1 don't know," replied Mrs. Ten-fraudulent field in a rather loud voice.
REGISTRAR'S WARNING
any way.
Mrs. Tanfield, whose statement of nairs showed abilities of £11.564 and ossets of £927, gave an under-
The Registrar warned her "not to taking to supply the trustee with a answer like that."
list of Jewellery which had been dis- "I may think you are not account-posed of over the value of £100,
ing for your assets," he said, "and it and the examination ended.
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