AN EXTRAORDINARY CAREER.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 7, 29 April 1876, Page 3

AN EXTRAORDINARY CAREER.

I Tlk- liistory of the woman, Nettie Dttn&an, who was recently fmrned to death at Kfimarn, tvns a somewhat singrttar one. abl-.e wiis the daughter »>f a respectaMe %otelke«per at S'earht)rottglr, and was a it« t> pretty jfirt. She, however, went iuou fat :m. farly age, and for some time Bed' a fust life in .Plymouth. Ueresheiuet p man named Swate, and the tw»> emigrated to Canterbury as nuut and wife._ They took passage t»y the ship Ivanu- e in" 'tHI-i'i, and on- the way ottt Mrs. Swa.Ee behaved very I't'Siieetabty. Fever hrofce out on- hoard : thirty-sis dwath.s oeetti-red anil many of the \ aasengevs were tit. Mrs. S'wale was exemplary tit tver altemtanw on the sick and tlyinjr, provtvw a perfect nunisttJi'ing angeL Kereondttet was- most highly spofcm of, was the- more appreutatt'd as the captain ami surgeon were niattvntivu and otissotrtte, the former dying of ilelLriuui- tremens- a few days after arrival in Lytteltoru Swafe and Nettie Dttnean t|;uarve!ltd soon after coming to Cltristchviru'a. and parted company, she again taking bo fast life. Swale went int»» httsinuss as a gvocyt, in partnership with atiotlier man, whom he *(ttarrelled with and murdered. Singttlitrly enough the manner of the was hy fire. He set tire to the tiottse i|t which It's partner was »twl the ttnf«rt«nale man was hnrned ; to death. Ftf this crime Swale was hanged. JSiuce that his ci duvant wife turs gone front had t«> worse. •She has proved ttie mitt of many men. fchie ease witb which he. ruvmu was conntettd w:ut ttiat of Pain, the fortuer Clerk to the Bench at Cfcrtstteftttreh. H« kw a n.arried man, hut became ensnare*! !>y this woman, took to drink, and finally en»certain Government money to euivhlc thetu both to botfc t<t» Australia. Ifo, however, was arrested ttt Ihtnedtn. Ktsllie l>tincan did go. to Attstralls, f>nt returned to- Canterhnry to. meet her fate hy l' wing burned to death after a dmnkeli * in a miserable- hut at Tttuartt.—• " WfUington Argtis.." 1