WOMAN'S IMPOSTURES
(Press Assn.—
funeral arranged for imaginary corpse DOCTORS ALSO IMPOSED ON
-By Telegraph — Copyrlght)
1 AUCKLAND, Wednesday, A record of a woman's imposture was outlined at the Police Court when Mary Augusta Hodson, aged 44, a cook, pleaded guilty to a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond. The police said she came from Ngatea, Hauraki Plains, in Christmas week and ran up an account with a taxi-driver She also called on a well known surgeon, giving the name of a prominent farmer's wife at Ngatea. After ' arranging for an examination she asked the. surgeon for a loan until she could communicate with her.husband. The surgeon found the name the woman gave in the directory and being assured lent her £2 5s. She next went to an undertaker and gave the name of another Plains fa.rm.er and said her husband's assistant had just died and that she would arrange for the burial. She described the body, gave measurements, and then borrowed £1. She visited two other doctors and telling similar tales as to the surgeon ' obtained £2 5s from each. All the money was spent in drinking. She had been imprisoned last June for three months for hoaxing dentists. The Magistrate to-day sentenced her to six months' imprisonment.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 127, 21 January 1932, Page 5
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