A "LADY SWINDLER."

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1724, 24 December 1887, Page 3

A "LADY SWINDLER."

Emma HqcSbod, the famous oonfidenos ■windier, has turned ap sgsin m a new character. Th/a time It is a Bnlcide. The readers -of my letterß will remember about two years ago a lady wan robbed of a valuable case of jewels at the Everett House. She had been stopping there several weeks and had ran up a bill of five or six hundred dollarß, her carriage WMb alone sometimes tunning to tea or fifteen dollars. When the landlord cent In his bill she Baid her room had been cobbed, and inßtead of payiDg a bill she expected handsome damages. A detective : WM Immediately pot upon the case, aud he had a photograph of a female swindler In his pocket, who had set the goodly city of Boston by the ears, and the moment he set his weather eye on the f»<cina fog lady, he discovered the Boßton •windier. She WH immediately arrested end lodged In gaol, and it then transpired that ihe had also Btolen a silk dress. Thing! began to look squally for Mra Hudton ; bat the people who thought her hand rru played out didn't know tbafc ■he held the joker and both bowers m the person of a very charming daughter. My! wasn't she pretty— peaches and cream with vanilla flavoring. When her mother was brought up to the bar, the daughter began to cry, the judge weakened, the prosecution stuffed the papers m Its pocket?, the old court bailiff ■aid he felt as if he was choking, and took an eifcra chew of tobacco and a rTjrlnk* and the result was that she borrowed fifteen dollars of one of the prosecuting lawyers and walked out of GOUtfc«— Cor re8 P° n dept.