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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.,

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