WIFE’S CRIME

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 458, 16 June 1937, Page 2

WIFE’S CRIME

FORGED CHEQUES Had Been Blackmailed London, May 22. Archibald Frederick Caddick, £6-a-week business man who “did not l want children,” heard at the Old ! Bailey that his young .wife was led into crime when she thought she was to become a mother Twenty-six-year-old Nancy Caddick, who waf. a typist before she married, j ' was described in Court as “a sweet ' girl wi’ih a. splendid character,” but j she pleaded guilty to forging and utj tering cheques to the value of £155, I and was sentenced to six months;’ ’ imp ri ion menu. i | AVhile the husband s<at in the pub- ! l;c benches only a few yards away ! j from his smart, attractive wife in the dock, Mr. Lawrence Vine, who defended saiji “the husband made it clear at the outset of their marriage that r|t that period they were not to have any children. “Indian Doctor?’ “Later, when she thought she was. going to l have a child, and upsdi at the prospect of having children against his wishes, she replied .to a box number advertisement in a magazine which suggested a remedy.” A coloured man who represented himself to be an Indian dictor, da.ll:ed to tea her, was paid £25, then | started- to blackmail her. She had I turned to forgery to get money to I meet his demands. Mr. C. G. du Cann, prosecuting, i said the police were satisfied that ) her husband knew nothing about Qhe : matter. : Inspecor Leslie said' that Mrs. Cadi dick told him thalt she had been I blackmailed to the extent of £245. ; | Her husband said’, “I did not want - • children—V.hen.”