FALSE PRETENCES
WOMAN'S ESCAPADE. (By Telegraph—Per Press A ssociation) ' O-HRISTCHURCH, April zr. During her brie.i, bait crowded period of liberty. Aussie Norman, who I possesses four aliases made a profitable shopping tour and obtained goods on cremt oy giving i;he name of Airs Norman of Lowry Hills. She also obtained th.e best treatment -it the rate oi £« a week in a private hospital. Norman, aged 87, described as a domestic, was sentenced to twelve months .gaol by the Alagistrate this morning for false pretences. It was in r seumtienlli conviction. Describing her stay in the hospital, the chief detective saiil as she was suffering from a goitre she obtained the services of a prominent doctor and she received the best of treatment. She took a private room. Before she went into the hospital she arranged with a florist to have flowers delivered each day and also approached a wine and spirit firm for supplies of wine there was no prospect of payment for anything. Air Young S.AI. “Did she have special jnirsesT” Chief Detective—“No, But she had just, about everything else. She got rid of the goitre. She has been at this sort of thing since 1912.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1931, Page 5
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197FALSE PRETENCES Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1931, Page 5
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