POSED AS DOCTOR.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18893, 7 January 1927, Page 3

POSED AS DOCTOR.

YOUNG GIRL'S THEFTS. A Dunedin girl, aged eighteen years, was charged at the Magistrate's Court yesterday before Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., on-two counts of obtaining credit by! fraud. She had previously pleaded guilty to ono of the charges, that of incurring a liability of £lO Is Sd to J. H. Boles, by fraud. The second charge was that .she obtained credit by fraud from' Mary Siegert, "Mbrley House,'' for the sum of £-8 Is lOd. • Chief Detective Lewis, who prosecuted,; said that the accused was eighteen years old, and came from Dunedin. By representing herself as a Miss Cruiekshank, she obtained credit to the extent of■ about £4O at the two places. She had also stayed at a private hotel as Miss Cruickshank, lcaviug the bill unpaid, but she was not charged "with that offence. Her people,.who.were in Dunedin, had been notified of the girl's position, but the father apparently was not going to have anything further to do with her. Her people were apparently quite respectable. She had left home, and the question was what was to be done with her.

The Magistrate asked whether restitution of the goods had been made, and the Chief Detective replied that most of the goods had been returned, but as far as sale value was concerned, were valueless. Mr Lawry: "I understand, then, that if the parents will not take her back, it is a question of not letting her go." Chief Detective Lewis: The fact that she represented herself as a lady doctor seems to indicato her to be rather mental.

Mr; Lawry: What of the people who believed her! • . Tho accused was admitted to probation for twelve months, on condition that she remained in the care of a certified • home, under supervision.