ADVENTURES OF AMY BOCK.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3175, 28 April 1909, Page 5

ADVENTURES OF AMY BOCK.

AN ASTONISHING CAREER. By Telegraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN, April 27. The main subject of conversation at present is the astonishing adventures of Amy Bock, who capped her previous record by marrying a young lady in the South recently. It appears that the lady is fairly well known in this city, and in Canterbury, and wherever she has been she appears to have made herself very agreeable, and at the same time wheedled money out of unsuspecting males.

About eighteen months ago it was reported that Amy Bock was engaged in a boarding house in the city, and won the affection of boarders by her obliging and kindly ways. Not by any means preposessing in her appearance Jshe still possessed an engaging personality. From one of the boarders to who she told a pitiful tale of a male friend of hers on the West Coast, who was hard up, and desired to leave the country, she ob tained twelve pounds, and was approaching another boarder with a like intention when the unexpected appearance of the landlady prevented the completion of the fleecing of the susceptible boarder. She had been an inmate of some of the institutions of this city, and whilst in the Samaritan Home showed her versatility by organising theatrical performances, which she produced very excellently. The adventuress is credited with being able to write no fewer than seven different styles of caligraphy, an accomplishment that has stood her in good stead in many of her plans. Amy Bock is well-known almost from one end of the Dominion to the other by the guardians of the peace, and is [known by aliases of Shannon and Chapel. She was before the Supreme Court in this city on February 13th, 1905, on a charge of forgery at Rakaia on November 15th, 1904. ' The facts alleged were that John Gardiner, of Rakaia. had given her a cheque for £2, with which to pay an account. The cheque was altered to £l2, and was given by the woman to a man named Ashby, whom she asked to purchase some, goods for her. He did this, and gave her the good 9 and the change. Bock, when on trial, alleged that she had only got £1 note.J half a sovereign and some silver from Ashby, who she further alleged had confessed to her that he had altered t'.ia cheque. She was found guilty, and Mr Stringer, Crown Prosecutor, gave a record of previous convictions, commencing with a month's imprisonment, in 1886 to her then latest conviction in this city in 1903. Mr Justice Denniston sentenced Bock to three years' imprisonment. The probable reason ol: Book's latest escapade has probably been divined by a Christchuroh police officer, who remarked that Bock had once been heard to say that she was tired of defrauding men; they were too soft and easy to work upon, and that women were much more difficult to deceive. The inference now drawn is that the air of novelty of deceiving one of her own sex into a marriage ceremony with her appealed to her more strongly than the duping of men.