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Show WOMAN IS CHARGED WITH BIG GRAFTING Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON". July 8. Hilda Sunderland, alias Mrs. Walker James, daughter of Colonel Maraden S. J. Sunderland, a retired re-tired officer, has been charged at Bow Street police court with obtaining large sums of money from armv officers on false representations that she could . obtain thorn appointments owing to her high "influence" with the authorities. J Lieutenants Hertford, Yeats. Evans and 1 Zimmerman gave evidence that they had paid her considerable sums to further their interests In obtaining good posts. Zimmerman, who was afraid he would be "floored" on account of bis German name, had disbursed more than $1000 to get Into the Royal Flying corps, but without success. suc-cess. Mrs. Walker James's method was to; a?k the applicant what particular ap- pointment he wanted, then to demand a payment of $250 in advance for expenses, and finally ask for a big loan to meet a call on shares or an investment of a particularly par-ticularly prom 1 sing cha rac ter. |