AMY BOCK—ADVENTURESS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 455, 1 May 1909, Page 2

AMY BOCK—ADVENTURESS.

-ANtTEtlTir "DARLING BOY.” Dunedin, April 27. Amy Bock, when charged at the Police Court to-day, said that she intended to plead guilty, and did not object to a remand. She was dressed in women’s clothes to-day, and wore a heavy veil, A letter found on accused, stamped and ready to be posted, shows clearly that she was preparing to escape. • It was signed, "Frances Redwood” (her supposed mother), and was addressed to the proprietor of the Albion Hotel, Wellington. It was dated: "The Nuggets, April 22,” and stated that she (Mrs Redwood) would be stopping at the hotel. Enclosed was a telegram, which she asked to be sent to her son at The Nuggets. The telegram read: "Carol Redwood, Nuggets. Meet us Lyttelton Friday. (Signed) Mother.” The first letter received, by Mrs Ottaway from "Mrs Redwood” read: "Dear Mrs Ottaway,—l have received a letter from my dear son, saying he wishes to marry your daughter, I have not the pleasure of knowing her, but I am sure she is all my boy says she is, or he would not love her as he tells me he does, and I hope and trust she will be loving and good. I suppose Carol has told of his having been once engaged before, but it was merely a boy and girl affair. The dear girl was drowned some 12 years ago, and Carol has never thought of anyone else till now.” lu another letter the mother writes to her " darling boy,” apoligisiug for not being able to attend the wedding, on account of her daughter being married the same day, and stating "We shall be with you in spirit as you shall be with us, and our ceremony shall be at three o’clock the same as yours will be, I will go down with them as far as Wellington, where they will take boat for Sydney, leaving there the following week for America. I shall then go on to the Nuggets and remain with Mrs Ottaway to wait your return from Melbourne.”