A WELL-KNOWN SWINDLER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1883, 25 April 1889, Page 4

A WELL-KNOWN SWINDLER.

A respectably dressed young woman named Amy Bock, alias Laing, alias A. M. Brumiell, was brought up at the City Police Court on Thursday morning before Messrs R. Westenra and P. E. Wright, J.P's., charged with obtaining goods to the value of £4 Is 2±d from C; Luxton on 20th March last by false pretences, and also with obtaining the sum of £1 from Jonathan Checkley on April 17th by mean of false representation. The accused, for whom. Mr D. "WynnWilliams appeared, pleaded guilty. Inspector Pender said there was something extraordinary in the history of the girl. She had been convicted in Christchurch some time ago on a similar charge to the one on which she ■was now before the Court. She had afterwards gone to Wellington and got aame bind of trouble. The Magistrates, however, had some doubts as to her sanity, and instead •f sending her to gaol committed her to the Industrial at Caversham. She carried on in the same way there, and was examined by two doctors as to her sanity, but they could not agree. She obtained a quantity of goods m Dunedin but gave most of them away to friends. The accused had recently been living as governess at Mrs Brooks', at the Hill Top, near Akaroa. It was not known how she had disposed of the goods obtained from Mr Luxton. She came by train the previous day from Little River, and she was followed in a cab by Detective O'Connor and Constable Walker and after driving round several streets she went into the shop of Mr Checkley, and stated that Mrs Brooks, who was known to Mr Checkley, was at the railway station, and wanted 16s change as she had not enough to take her home. Mr Checkley gave the accused £l, and she went back to the railway station, but wheu about to leave by train for Lyttelton she was arrested. The accused was, Mr Pender believed, not accountable for her actions at times. He would recommend that she be remanded and examined as to her sanity. He believed that she wished to be placed wnere she would be prevented from giving way to her propensity for obtaining goods. After consideration it was decided that the accused should be remanded for a week for medical examination as to her sanity, and it was understood that Mr Donaldson should be asked to keep her separate from other prisoners in be Addington gaol.—Press.