Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-11-22
.FLEES HOME OF Wife
ENGIISHMAk HAD TRIED TO
DROWN SPOUSE YEARS AGO.
Ex-prisoner Suddenly Sees Benefactor
10 Really His Father.In-law, A.
ter He Had Swlndled Hlr-Po-
lice Search for the Fugitive.

Sydney, N. s. W.-Released from
the city prison after serving nine
months sentence for number OF
petty larceny offenses, Norman Grar'
ton. an Englishman, about thirty years
OF age, applied to the Hon. l.. Il.
Burns, a prominent solicitor and one
OF number Of people whom ne had
mulcted on British magazine SUD-
scriptions, for aid to assist him IN
leaving the country.
Mr.. Burns had not appeared against
Grafton In the criminal proceedings
and the fellow said he came to thank
the solicitor for his consideration.
He was very smooth talker and at
once won the friendship Of Mr.. Burns.
On being questioned concerning his
life in England. Grafton told an appar-
emily straightforward story, SO I'M
pressing Mr.. Burns that the latter In
vited him to his home, with the inten'
ton Of having him dine, supplying him
with good clothes and furnishing him
passage money to the old country.
But upon arriving at the rich and
handsome Burns residence on. Haver'
ley lane. Grafton took look at the
premises and Immediately began to
make excuses about entering. saying
that his clothes and general appear
ance would not permit him. But az
his would-be host urged, Grafton or
fered the excuse that he had forgotten
until that moment that he had pro-
missed to meet a friend. Thereupon,
very excited, he hurried from the
vicinity.
Mr.. Burns believed that all was not
right and going into the house ne re-
lated his suspicious to hi, family. IN
Guiding daughter who had married
in England during her school days IN
that country and whose husband.
Charterhouse student, attempted to
drown her at a lake In Scotland.
whittier they had gone on their honey.
moon.
In the meantime the husband, whose
name was Henry Grafton Studley, had
secured possession of all her valuables.
including about $1.75O IN cash
which she had drawn from the Exeter
bank. The follow Immediately fled,
England and Ciligent search by the
English and Continental police failed
to trace him.
With her fathers description of the
stranger Mrs. Studley, who has long
since resumed her maiden name and
who has never quite recovered from
her terrible experiences Of night at
Tough Inver, told her suspicious, and
Mr. Burns at once communicated with
the authorities. with the result that
today the police Of all Australia are
looking for the man.
He is believed to be not only the
one who attempted to make away with
the young woman six years ago, but
also the culprit, at that time unknown
and unsupported, who induced the
Hon. Lena Parcsen, daughter of
Count Parcsen of Denmark, to elope
from the Exeter Girls school in 1905,
and whose body was found floating
in Inver lake during the first days OF
the fall vacation. Concerning this
tragedy but little was published in
England at the time.
Miss Burns until today had never
shown a picture Of her renegade hus-
band and the would-be murderer. but
whom her father saw the photograph
he was unable to say whether
or not it was the man who
had appealed to him for aid, full
blond beard being worn by the ex-
prisoner, while the photograph re-
vealed boyish looking student.
Endeavoring to explain the fellows
sudden change Of mind when the
homo was reached, Miss Burns says
that at the time Of her love affair in
England she had no pictures Of her
home or parents. but that just few
days previous to her flight newly
made photograph OF the Sydney man.
sion arrived in the mails, and she re-
calls that her husband studied 1t
carefully.