Lady Raffles.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 124, 28 May 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)

Lady Raffles.

POLICEMEN used to pat Sally Nolan's dog as she walked the streets at midnight, little realising the thoughts revolving in its owner's mind. For, while she exercised her friendly little mongrel, Sally Xolan, '"'lone woman Raffles," was planning the burglaries by which she lived. Fair-haired, harmless looking and generally dressed in shabby tweeds, she was regarded by neighbours in Camden Town, London, as an out-of-work domestic servant. They were right. But little did the neighbours know that while she tramped the streets with her pet, Sally was on the look out for new "eribs v to crack, thinking out new ways of cracking them. Some months aero the "woman Raffles'' got rid of her dog. That broke her run of luck. For at the Middlesex sessions in April she was sentenced to 12 months' hard labour for house-breaking at \\ ealdstone, and stealing and receiving articles. "A genuine woman burglar who acts l>y herself," was how the prosecution described her. Detective-Sergeant Jackson revealed that in the last six years she has served two years' hard labour for housebreaking, 12 months' for entering a house by night, and six months for larcenv.