WOMAN SN COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1932, Page 6

WOMAN SN COURT

ROGUE AND VAGABOND

•SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS

(By Teleyraph—Per Press Association j

AUCKLAND, January 20. A record of a woman’s imposture was outlined m the Police Court today, when Mary Augusta Hudson, aged forty-four, a cook, pleaded guilty to a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond. . ,

The police said that the woman came from Ngatea, Hauraki Plains, in Christmas week. She ran up an account with a taxi-driver, and late) called in a well-known surgeon, giving the name of a prominent farmer s wife af Ngatea. After arranging for an examination, she asked the surgeon for a loan until she could commiunicate with her husband. He found the name the woman gave in ,i directory, and, being assured lent her £2 ss. She next went to an undertaker. gave the name of another Hauraki Plains farmer, and said that her husband's assistant had just died. She to arrange for the burial, she said. She described the body, gave measurements, and then borrow’j £l. She visited two other doctors, and telling .similar tales as to the first, obtained £2 5s from each. AH the money was spent in drinking. She had been imprisoned last June for three months for defrauding dentists. The Magistrate sentenced the accused to six months’ imprisonment.