PICKPOCKET’S WEALTH.
OWNER OF SEVERAL HOUSES.
INQUIRY FOR NEXT-OF-KIN. An amazing affidavit indicating that a well-known criminal had died intestate, leaving an estate valued at £15,900, was read in the Enquiry Court lately, when the Public Trustee of New South Wales asked for an inquiry as to who should share in the distribution.
The Public Trustee stated that he had been informed by the Comp-troller-General of Prisons that deceased, Teresa Alice Taylor, of Sydney, who died in May, 1925, was a well-known criminal. She had a large number of aliases, including Amy Wilson, wife of Reginald John Wilson, fireman, of Sydney; Amy Rose Wilson and Alice Rose Payton. He had ascertained that she was born in 1884, that both her parents were dead, and that she had left surviving four brothers, one sister and two children of a deceased sister. He had further been informed that Teresa Alice Taylor left her parents’ home in the country when she was 16 years of age, and came to Sydney, where she entered domestic service. Another sister was already in service in Sydney. Out of their small savings the two sisters purchased a block of land in the suburbs and sold it at a profit. The Comptroller of Prisons stated that deceased then embarked on a career of crime as a thief and pickpocket, and amassed some wealth. Her first conviction was in October, 1910, and her last in March, 1924. During that period she was convicted 13 times, her total sentences amounting to sevlen years, four of which s'he served in gaol. >She had just completed a sentence of 18 months about three 7 months before her death. ./
Teresa Taylor acquired a great deal of house property in the slums of Sydney at different times, under various aliases. Deceased’s surviving sister was the only one of her relatives with whom she had been in touch during the last 12 years of her life. That sister said that she was sure that, deceased was never married. She had informed the woman who attended her during her last illness that she was never married, and on that basis the Public Trustee was convinced that she died a spinster.
The Judge referred the matter to the Master in Equity for an inquiry as to the deceased’s next-of-kin.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3786, 1 May 1928, Page 4
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382PICKPOCKET’S WEALTH. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3786, 1 May 1928, Page 4
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