Haim Hillel de Medolliers Nathan-son, sent to London from South Africa by the Carnegie Fund to do Scriptural research at the British Museum, was accused in the Bank-Tuptey Court recently of "hypocrisy" in connection with a letter he wrote to a young woman.
From this woman, Miss Stokes, an art student said io be dependent on an allowance from her family in Australia, Nathanson, who is 31 years old, was said to have borrowed total of £276.
Mr. S. W. Hood, Official Receiver, suggested thg letter contained a threat of suicide to obtain money. It ran.—
"Even I, who have borne so much with courage and fortitude, have limits, and I feel there is not mach more I can bear. Will a way open for me, or will it be that way along which there is no return?
"Pain, sufferings, humiliation, bit-torness' and sorrow have I suffered in body and soul. Had I but the courage, the course would be quite obvious.
^I had to make use of the blank cheque you gave me when the deal did not come off this afternoon. What a drain I am!
The Official Receiver commented: "There is only one way you could interpret this—rank hypocrisy. After that letter you had about another £120 from Miss Stokes?"
"I don't know the amount," replied Nathanson.
The Official Receiver suggested that while he was borrowing from Miss Stokes he knew his grant from the Carnegie Fund had been stopped because he had failed to carry out certain commissions, "I was negotiating for the resume tion of the payments," was the reply.
Nathanson said he had obtained a loan which the Bishop of Willesden had agreed to wipe out & bad debt. The bishop had said: "The only
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