THE ADVENTURES OF AMY BOCK.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 99, 28 April 1909, Page 9

THE ADVENTURES OF AMY BOCK.

♦ : FURTHER PARTICULARS. fßr Telegraph. — Special to The Post.J BUNEDIN, This Day. ."Percy Redwood" tried to insure a) property which ha allegedi he owned! in Tapanui district, and; also made application '.o the A.M.P. Society foij insurance on his lite. Ifc was a great disappointment to th.6 large crowd, who packed the police courtl this morning when Amy Bock, dressed) in female attire, and heavily veiled, stepped, into the dock for- a .remand. Accused's full name, according to thd police records, is. Amy Maud Bock, and! she is described as "a native of Victoria, a teacher by profession, born im 1864, sft o£in high, slim, built, dark! complexion, dark ixrowE eyes, religion! Church of England- " She arrived ml New Zealand -in 1885, and it was ml May, 1886, that ehe first came under! the notice of the police. In that month! she served a sentence- of one month fon false pretences-, and has since served! sentences in Christchurch, Wellington, Dunedin, Oama-ru, and TimaTu for falsa pretences, forgery, and- larceny. Her) last sentence was- three years in, Christchurch in 1906. A letter was found on, accused, stamped and ready to be posted, showing! clearly that she vjftfe preparing to es-« capo.. It was signed "Frances Redwood" (her supposed mother), and was! addressed to the proprietor of the AIJ bion. Hotel, Wellington. It was dated) Th© Nuggets, April 22nd, and stated! that she u>its. Redwood) would be stopping at the hotel. Enclosed was a) * telegram which she asked to be sent tol her son at The Nugget?. The telegram/ read : "Carol Redwood, Nuggets. — i Meat us Lyttelton, Friday. — (Signed)! Mother." The first letter received byi 'Mrs. Ottaway from Mrs. Redwood/ read:— "Dear Mns. Ottaway-,— l hav«f received a letter from my dear sonj saying he wishes to marry your daughter. I have not the pleasure of knowing 1 her, but I am sure she isf all my! boyi says she is, or he would not love herl as he- tells me he does, and as) I hope! and trust she will be loving and good. I suppose Carol has told of his having been once engaged before, bub' it wad some years ago, and .it was merely al boy and girl affair. The dear girl wa* drowned some twelve years ago, and! Carol has never thought of any one eba till now. " The cabman who was engaged to' drive the pair from the Nuggets to Dunedin is sorry; "Mr. Percy Redwood," ha reckons, owes him £30. A Balclutha tradesman, with an account for £10, called on " Mr. Bed wood " at the Nuggets, and asked for payments " Can you change a £100 note ?" asked the wealthy Redwood. "No," replied the astonished tradesman. "Well, then,. I will see if Mr. Ottaway can change it,"and away Redwood wont to see Mr.. Ottaway. The latter handed him £10, with which to pay the account, and Redwood, pocketing the money, coolly, informed the tradesman that Mr. Ottaway could not change the £100 note, but that he would be in Balclutha the following day, when he would pay him. Accused, when arrested, was wearing a gold medal with the inscription, "Presented to Percy C. Redwood by his friends." This, it has been learnt, was purchased by accused when travelling from Dunedin to the Nuggets by train* TIRED OF DEFRAUDING MEN, THEY ARE TOO SOFT. lOTl OT TKI.EOP.APH. — PRESS ASSOCIATION J CHRISTCHURCH, 27th April. About eighteen months ago, it is r* ported, Amy Bock was engaged in a boarding-house in the city, and won tho affection of the boarders by her oblio--mg aud kindly ways. From one to whom she told a pitiful tale of a male friend of hers on the West Coast who was hard up and desired to leavo tho country she obtained £12. - Bho had} •been an inmate oi' some of the institu, jions of this city. Whilst in the Samaritan Home she showed her versatility by organising theatrical performances,' which she produced very excellency, bhe is credited with being able to wiita no fewer than -seven diffrrent styles of cahgraphy, an accomplishment that has stood her in good stead in many of her plans. The probable reason of Bock's latest escapade is probably divined by th« Christchurch police officer, who remarked that Bock had once been heard to say » she was tired of dcfiauding men. They were 100 &oft and easy to work upon^