Stated to have lived "like two reckless, crazy young a woman, who was described 89 the daughter of the late Joseph Hocking, the novelist, and a married man, appeared together before the Williton, Somerset, magistrates, States the "News of the World."
The woman, Mr Alison Johnson, was charged in the name of A. Duff Arnott, She and her companion, Ian Duff Neil Arnott, were accused of obtaining £1 16s. 5d. by false pretences from Herbert Bere, of the Blue Anchor Hotel, near Watchet.
The man was further alleged to have obtained £14 3s. 7d. from Mr. Bere without notifying him that he was zn undischarged bankrupt.
After the couple had pleaded guilty it was explained by Mr. John F. Eastwood, K.C. M.P., who appeared for them, that they met last July-The woman was married, but was living apart from her husband.
The mantle of her novelist father, continued Mr. Eastwood, seemed in some measure to have descended upon her, and she was earning good money in London as a writer.
Then she and Arnott became infatuated with each other like young people of 17 or 18...
Arnott left his wife, Mr. Eastwood continued, and threw up a good job io go away with the woman.
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