Twice married.
Pour times bankrupt Spent n fortune estonated at £250,000, He inherited his money from his grandparents, Sir Frank Smith and Mr. Hugh Ryan, both of whom were dollar millionaries of Canada. On the death of his father, his mother, who idolised him, brought him to England to be educated. She had houses at Butlers Cross, Buckinghhamshire, and in Green' St. Park Lane. Alphonso, or Frank as he is generally called, was sent to expensive preparatory schools and subsequently to Cambridge. Whn he left the University he obtained a commission in the Dragon Guards, which after a year or two he resigned.
Tt la stated that the cost i for the defence of Smith will considerably excessd £1,500. I cannot comment on the ease but though the acquittal aroused the enthusisim of the crowd, the Judge alone comes out of the whole business with cre-Git, The "Evening Standard" re-gua tat, welcomed te erdict accordance with tas Smith "is going back enthusiastically to her husband—at the end of his sentence, while Mrs. Derham, the one tragic figure in the [drama expresses thankfulness that! no further life has been sacrificed.
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