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Caption title: The Radziwill trial
Second edition: 56 pages, cream card covers - paperback, the back cover is missing, a good copy.
Only 3 copies listed in SABIB vol 3 page 769
Princess Radziwill who was charged with having forged bills for large amounts up to £6000 on Mr. Rhodes was arrested on the 24.Sept.1901 for fraud but released on bail the same day until she was charged in the Supreme Court of the Cape Colony, Oct.1901 and sentenced to two years' imprisonment after three days of trial.
In her own evidence she stated that she had received the bills signed in blank by Mr. Rhodes from Mrs. Scholtz but there appears to be no doubt that she forged the bills and then attempted to prevent action being taken by threats of publishing correspondence which she alleged was of a compromising nature from Mr Rhodes and Lord Milner. Her methods were, as the Attorney-General described them, the ordinary armoury of the blackmailer: and she had made use of her social position for purposes of intrigue and fraud. She was a fine specimen of the lady adventurer of detective fiction and we may expect her reappearance in a roman à clef dealing with South Africa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Radziwill
- Size: 8vo (210 x140mm)
- Name: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
- Contact Person: Paul Mills
- Country: South Africa
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