AMY BOCK.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9477, 21 June 1909, Page 6

AMY BOCK.

The end of Amy Bock’s escapades lias not yet been reached, remarksthe Gore Standard. The latest story has it that a Southland girl who* received a term of imprisonment became acquainted with Amy while' serving her sentence, both being incarcerated at the same period about sixteen years ago. They became fast friends. After being released from gaol the girl from the south took a* situation as cook in a southern district. While there she became intimately acquainted with a young man, who afterwards went to Sydney. And this is where Amy comes in. She came South to spend a holiday with her friend, and learned that the latter was corresponding with her young man in Sydney. Confidences were exchanged, and Amy learned that the young man desired his sweetheart’s consent to* marriage, but sbe would not give it. Amy saw her opportunity and stepped into the breach. the address of the young man in Sydney, she proposed marriage on condition that she received a stated sum of money, of which she was in sore need, and signed her friend’s name to the letter. Tlje writing ofher friend was so well imitated and the style of diction so well copied, that the young man was overjoyedand sent the money.