No 43
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Sir,
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C4 MARIS
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 7th. February, 1913.
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your telegrams of the 9th., 17th., and 28th. ultimo regarding
the prisoner Miriam Monteith. I enclose copies of my telegrams of
the 16th. and 20th. January.
2.
This woman was arrested in Hongkong in April
last on a charge of obtaining money by false pretences, preferred
by Messrs. Thomas Cook and Sons. The prosecutors, however, did not
come forward on the ground that the accused had already been con-
-victed at Shanghai of a similar offence and sentenced to 9 months
imprisonment. Accordingly there was substituted a charge of obtain-
-ing the sum of 3564.53 by false pretences from the Hongkong and
Shanghai Bank, on which she was found guilty and was sentenced to
nine months' imprisonment.
3.
The prisoner states that she was born in
Edinburgh, her father being of British and her mother of American
nationality, and that she was educated partly in England and part-
-ly in the United States. I am informed by Sir Havilland de
Sausmarez that he has good reason to believe that her real name is
Carrie Rogers. He describes her as a dangerous criminal in the way
of fraud and suggests that it would be well that the London Police
should know of her. She is about 40 years of age of good education
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
&c.,
&C.
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