The evening world. Newspaper, August 28, 1922, Page 14

While Bevan and Jeanne sat drinking cockt i q Bevan, highly excited, rushed into the room. ‘You have a choice of two things,” she shouted, ‘‘flight or suicide.’ co Why English Royal id y “nglis oyaily an High Society Fear th Gerard L. Bevan, Alleged Defaulting Fi [ aulting Financier, anil Ask How Mlle. Jeanne Pertuisot Came Into H 5,000,000 Franc Fortune. 4 | By Ferdinand Tuohy. Equitable so much as the efforts to ' Wepyright/A022 (New York Hvening Word) BUSH UP that failure which will stamp { by Press Publishing ppany. the Bevan case in police annals, f) EMBERS of the Royal There has not been a parallel since f Household in Buck. ‘© Oscar Wilde case. Wilde was » hours to run and ingham Palace and quit Instead, as relates Cabinet Ministers in Thomas Marlowe, editor of the Daily Whitehall—and_oth- Mail and t a young re; on ers fight high in the Wilde's trail, “Wilde refused to xo. He - simply sat the whole afternoon drink- English social firma- ing champagne in his hotel, ‘That ment—are reputed to be trembling at evening he was arrested.” the prospect of an early return to Bevan, on the other hand, ran—or Lendon of Gerard Lee Bevan, alleged defaulting financier to the tune of $16,000,000. } Valiant efforts had been made tor Veg the end that Bevan should disappear , into the void and never more be ji heard of Every string in Mayfair was pulled, VE every ounce of influence émployed ; that the amazing affairs of the Lon- : don City and Equitable Insurance ; i Company, of whom Bevan was Chatr- man and virtual uncontrolled dicta tor, might never be aired in the pub- ' Me courts, since, individual consider- } ations apart,*these are hardly appro. le priate times for the masses to hear i how their betters played the fool with } ; their money. ‘The. English masses have alrendy had one bad shock re- cently in the wholesale swindling, car- ried out ut their expense, of Horatio Bottomley, but Bottomley was not of society—posed rather as one of their own number-—so the masses kept un der their class ire. It is different with Bevan, Bevan surrounded himself with titled direc tors and the whole atmosphere of the great concern over which he presided with such incredible consequences was ultra-fashionable. Not that the well- to-do and socially elect have not suf- fered severely, also, in the crash. Take tho case of Mrs, George Keppel, quondam close friend of King Edward, and who is stated to have lost her all ® 4 & % ‘ e } and to have retired to the lire vice th ib And then there is that other heay loser, the King’s Chamberlain, he who H looks after the royal purse at pres : ent so depleted, Sir Douglas Dawson i Latterly, by the marriage of Prince Mary to the ric bachelor in En land (worth twelve million dollars) and by the union of Louis of Batten parg to the richest heiress in Eng ¢worth thirty million dollars) King { George has managed to improve his i precarious financial situation, yet it is ' said that, acting on the advice of his Chainberlain, he too invested heavily fe Bevan's concern. From his cell in Vienna, where awaits extradition to England, be proclaims himself guiltless of crime avers:that the crash was due to ur fortumate investments, yet it is hardly the failure of the London, City and | i Italy to try out THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, Mile. Jeann Pertuisot . tlew—whi and very Da 1 ka en long associated with the fashionable ar as ou spas and watering places of Europe Atle lows > 8 diffien t 1 incurred were known, . 5 ee + precisely Me Slane "ba C mu “beautiful lady" class Aor Ainst him, but} t me Go nat certain that: gowne, you see them, pom in har pone l ul direc- or caressing « panting wolfhoun ited eee’ S involved as having: now alltomobiling through the Bois exhibited gré gence, would hes- Boulogne, now sunning themsely itate to-go to any ext and so he Cannes oe Monte Carlo, now fF ed calmly and tus on at the on the bills at baccarat at Deauville 1 h the lady now taking the cur Viehy o chief thing you about t o i uly in the “beautiful lady" ¢ s that it is a 1 ca -tiaie ind demand 1 . aratth vience from hote 1, without inprocurable by « pre not the last expression f 1, protty, petite having rned and 1 telephoned for an aeroplane to be next morn- him nd we both flew across to Pa m that day, he going to Vienna and | returning to my house in the Etoile quarter." Jean net less than $50,000, addi vite ge 1 bankroll o: ty and Equitable dy at Croydon early He asked me go with All he had was $1,500. Bevan her fortune ition to posses nd a mansion in Paris, she arge number of shares in the ¢ » Hotel in the Champs I 000,000 franc 4 = D nd Be van wand from te na Breton y It was during round of the ch resorts, at Vichy ix 1915, that Jeann i Leet n, and Pertuisot met Ge until the day of his flight from J tn February last she venvain dear friend, She Ww m fact him at the Carlton H London, © ny We had adjo arrat und wert ektail befc nner when Mrs. Be van rushed the room. Thad net her—she was 1 ut © husband ‘ at Me wil ) de ) ne was a ain / does not deny that when she amounted to whereas to-day, sing a villa at Dlar- the —dn fact, nne owns up to being a most suc- The most costly Lee bHbevan ~ Jewels and furs of the Rue de la Paix, automobiles, an apartment and later a “hotel particular’ or a mansion, came the way of beautiful Jeanne, who did either, m to object to her friend Bevan cultivating a simul taneous acquaintance with a second beautiful 1a dy Mademoiselle Madeleine Vernier—indeed, the threc used to mect at Jeanne Pertuisdt’s ,partment. The other day Mrs. Lee Bevan, arriving in Paris all in a flus ter, proceeded to charge Jeanne with filching the inheritance of Bevan’s daughter Sheila, but Jeanne came through the ordeal with flying colors and even demanded an apology, de. claring that she knew nothing, abso lutely nothing of Bevan's financial transactions and that she had not seen him or heard a word from bim since the day last February when they alighted at the Bourget aero. rome, coming from London (unlike beautiful lady’? number two, Made- leine Vernier, who, financed by Be yan's brother Ivor, travelled to Inns bruck and joined the fugitive there). So whatever happens to King George, or to Lloyd George, to the King’s Chamberlain or to Lord Rib blesdale (married to an Astor) or to Austen Chamberlain, leader of the House of Commons and brother-in-law in of Mrs. Bevan, or to all the rest of illustrious folk more or less di rectly or indirectly enmeshed in the seandat of allowing Gerard Lee Bevan to escape and then of failing to tullow Scotland Yard could have sfully had they been per essful ‘beautiful lady." She says by the ‘hidden hand’ ply: ‘Monsteur Bevan was very —whatever befall these high high dq to me. mighty but very human mor What Monsieur Bevan did was to our beautiful lady — Jeanne tour her round France for years, lay tuisot, of the pearls and the Pani hing money and attention on her mans the wolfhound and the Rolla while he might, have more pro- the baccarat table and the Bi itably been attending to the uw rritz villa, is not worrying a bit abou ortunate investments of the London, the airs of the London City and Lquitable. Mile. =. Madeleine Vernier ~