A FASCINATING LADY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 195, 7 August 1908, Page 4

A FASCINATING LADY.

UAl' JIAOHKLOKS AX AUC'IiLAXD. LAY TllEUt 11 HARTS AT 11EII FEIST. Auckland, August 1. A young and well dressed woman of rather fascinating uppearav.ee has been having a flutter in -ociety circles in Several country towns in Aueklaud, and numerous gay young bachelors who liave laid their hearts at her feet arc feeling rather pained ju-,t now. The young ' woman, -May Jlallett by name and with several aliases, appeared at the Cambridge Police Court yesterday in answer to a change of obtaining board and lodgings at the National Hotel for herself and maid by false pretences, .Shu pleaded guilty. Chief Detective Alarsack prosecuted, and explained that tile false pretences were partly by inference and partly by word. Tile young woman' represented herself as one of a party of tourists who were touring the colonics, and that her imaginary friends would follow ihur. Whe pleaded guilty.

■ Tliu detective stated tlmt accuse;', after leaving Auckland some days ago, went tu Hamilton, passing herself oil' as a -Miss Baker. She left for the ii'hames without satisfying the hotelkeeper. At the Thames she stayed at a good hotel as the -Honourable Miss Collard, and mixed with the elite of the town. While there she induced a young girl named Kvelyu LVarco (to accompany her on her tour at a salary of 25s a* week and all expenses. Together they arriwil at Cambridge, and after being there a short while she and her maid went to the station, accused hoarding the train with the intention as she 'stated of meeting her friends at Jluakura Junction. She did not return, however, and was arrested at Auckland.. Miss I'earce brought little or no money away with her, and was practically left stranded. The detective considered this one of the worst features of the eas'e.

Accused, it was further stated, had three previous convictions against her for theft of jewellery. (In these charges she had been leniently treated, having been sent to St. Mary's 'Home under a bond of good behaviour, but this had be«n broken. She had arrived trnin JOiifrland by the i''ifcshirc under engagement as a domestic to a (j'isborne lady, but had .remained in Auckland. Accused was sentenced to on.' month's imprisonment.

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