A GIRL BURGLAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 78, 3 April 1926, Page 33

A GIRL BURGLAR.

CONFESSION OF CRIME. Appearing, heavily veiled, in the dock at Flintshire Quarter Sessions, HUda Cubbon, aged 20, of Sandiway, Cheshire, asked that six charges of burglary should be taken into consideration in passing sentence upon her. Five of the offences related to FlintShire, and one to Cheshire. She had been accused of burglary at a village Inn near Mold and was sentenced to three months' hard labour. On her arrest Cubbon had made a sensational confession, but the police had been unable to verify many of her statements. Her counsel suggested that "this highly sensational statement was the product of a mind suffering from morbid hallucination. "The Inference was she had been the tool of a stronger wicked mind than her own." In her "confession" Cubbon said she had been a shorthand typiste, and then a nurse. She declared that she met a man named Bob Stewart at a Liverpool cafe, and later went with him In a motor car to London. He told her he was a professional thief, and she was so carried away by the glamour of the life that she decided to stay with him. The statement then described the following exploits:— Three robberies committed while In London for three weeks. Stole £322 from a man whom she drugged with ether, in Manchester. In Chester took £250 from a man. Left by hotel window, and Joined "Bob" and another man waiting outside. Ship's officer in Liverpool given opium after they had dined together on board. Took bis signet ring and £270 from the cabins. Later Stewart (she declared) went to Penmaenmawr and did a "Job," from which he got about £2000. She took the money to Folkestone, where a man met her and took it to Boulogne. Lord Justice Banks, the Recorder, said she had woven most extraordinary fairy tales of elaborate plans to commit crimes all over England. He hoped the time spent In prison would help her to regain her normal state of mind.