You trusted him implicitly?—Yes.
Lady Bowden said that her husband gave her a Rolls-Royce car, costing about £3,000.
In February 1932 1 had to leave home because my husband told me I must go.' I took the car with me.
My husband telephoned to the chauffeur and said, If you don't bring home the Rolls-Royce at once I will put you in gaol The chauffeur, who Was a nervous man, took the car back immediately. I have not seen it since.
1 spoke about the car, but my husband said, Leave the question of the car until we get the big things settled.
Mr, Stevenson: Do you know some people, Peter and Johi Lindley?
Lady Bowden: Have I to answer that?
Mr. Registrar Kean: That is the object of the question.
Mr. Steverson: Have you paid them large sums of m: John Lindl to say are the illegitimate children of Sir Harold Bowden long before I met him, I wasn't the ce-respondent in his divorce case.
You have not paid them any mone; or transferred any money {o them' I thought of doing so because I was sorry for them, Have you paid anything to them?—
Having £5,000 a year to live on, in the course of two years you have exceeded that income by £8,2007—you say so, it must be.
You were spending not only the £5,000 a year, but another £4,000 as! well?
Lady Bowden did not answer. She said that her household and personal expenses over the period since August 1936 were £4,393. She made an allowance of £1,500 to her daughter, Is that the Mrs. Clark, also a bankrupt in this court?—She is not bankrupt.
There is a receiving order against her then?—There may be, but she is not bankrupt, and will not be.
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