HOUSEKEEPER'S POSES.
MCLETEEEST WOMAN KNOWN" ) "One of the cleverest women known to , the police; frequently posed as a woman t of title," was the description given by Detective Sergeant Wood of Xellie f Babbins, aged 47, a Alorden housekeeper, - who was sentenced to eighteen months' r hard la bour at the Surrey Quarter Sessions. It was stated that she had - twenty previous convictions; she stole > a cheque from a woman more than *0 , years old; she used the name "Ruth Victoria Sackville-West," went into ► mourning when a nieml>er of tliat family [ died, said there was a legacy of £.500 due to her; and she said she was piin; to marrv a "Commander Brook. R.X." She said this wedding "never came off'' and she did not know where the man was now. She had been married twUre. and one of her husbands was a cousin of the late Lord Sackville.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 72, 27 March 1937, Page 7
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149HOUSEKEEPER'S POSES. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 72, 27 March 1937, Page 7
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