Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-05-29 | Page 18 | Penniless Officer Lives in Luxury

PENNILESS OFFICER LIVES IN LUXURY LONDON LONDO May 28 28 An 28 An extraordinary extraordinary extraordinary nary story of an officers officer's life of luxury while actually in a penniless condition was told in the bankruptcy court when Leslie Wrigley applied for foran foran an all order of discharge Wrigley described as of Upper Montague street W. W failed in September Septem Septem- ber 1916 His liabilities were estimated estimated estimated esti esti- esti- esti mated at pounds sterling and the only asset likely to be realized was GOO pounds under the will of a relative rela rela- tive The man according to the official receiver went to Australia before the war and returned as a trooper in the Light Horse He obtained a commission commission commission commis commis- sion in the Twelfth Royal but resigned because became of financial difficulties dif dlf- difficulties fi which arose from his personal person person- al al' extravagance He went to live in Upper Montague street continued the official receiver er and found it very fatally easy to borrow from London moneylenders In 1916 wholly without means he went to a hotel at Maidenhead for a month where his hotel bill averaged d 50 60 pounds a week Later he went to the Savoy hotel where he met a man named Brown who joined him in raising money from most of the London moneylenders Having exhausted these people said the official receiver Wrigley and Brown decided to tour the provinces to exploit provincial moneylenders The fhe application was adjourned to enable Wrigley ley to take legal advice