SIXTY CHARGES

Shannon News, 31 December 1925, Page 3

SIXTY CHARGES

* ... SCHOOL TEACHER'S REMARKABLE FRAUDS. SYDNEY, Dec. 17. For gheer audacity, the operations of a teacher of an exclusive girls' school at Edgecliffe, Sydney, arrested on 60 charges of false pretences, will take some beating. For more 'than a year.the woman, whip is exceptionally well educated, lias been a language mistress at the school, attended by the daughters of wealthy city business men. In the course of her caroyersation with one of the pupils, detectives' clailm that the teadher discovered that the girl's father had an account with one of the city's largest retail stores. She was informed by the girl that her father allowed his wife Bind daughter tiq pprctee articles without question, and that his accountant always paid the accounts without question. When the last quarterly statement reached her father's, office, however, he opened the letter himself. Casually glancing through themstatenieit, he noticed many articles which he had not expected his wife to. purchase. So he took the account home with him and showed it to his wife and daughter. They told him they had not purchased such articles as children's expensive toys and such items mentioned in the statement. He put the matter in the hands of the detectives, amd subsequently they arrested one of the teachers at the school, who, they alleged, had been making purchases daily for three months and charging them to the account of her pupil's father. Sixty separate charges have been made Against her in consequence The police searched her home, and found most of the articles. The puzzling feature, so far as the police are concerned, is that there was no necessity for the woman to act as she is charged with doing. She has her own home on the North Shore line, a residence worth considerably more than £2500, wiii a tennis court attached, fromnvhich she receives money from several clubs which use it. In addition, she is in receipt of an income from her husband, who is employed to, the country and she drew a substantial salary from the sohiolol where she taught.