MORE ABOUT AN ADVENTURESS

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 107, 7 May 1909, Page 3

MORE ABOUT AN ADVENTURESS

[Bt Telegbaph. — Special to The Post.} CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. An ex-police officer, who is at present in ChxLstchurch, gave a Times regorter details of some early adventures of Amy Bock. He stated that when he was i stationed at Paekakariki, previous to \ the completion of the Manawatu railway I line, he used to attend the Otaki Maori i Land Courts, and there he saw Amy i Bock. She was then matron of c Maori [ Boye' College at Otaki. He often went i over to the house of the constable staS fcioned at Otaki to attend musical even- , i ings, at which Amy Bock also was prei sent. Some time after he met her, he [ accidently discqvered her name in the Police Gazette, ' a* having just been released from custody. While at Otaki she went to the local schoolmaster, and showed him a letter that purported to I be from her solicitor, stating that she ,was not to present a cheque for £50 for a few days, owing to some technicalities preventing the money being transferred from Wellington to Otaki. She | asked the schoolmaster to give her 5 change, but he had not sufficient moneys | in his possession, and so she asked for I small cheques for the amount to faciliI tate the changing at the banks. He | gave her a number of cheques and a day | or so later she showed him another letI ter from her solicitor, who again said I that a delay had taken place. Payment 1 of the cheques was stopped, but too I late in many cases. She aleo obtained s money from the stationmas-ter at Otaki. I When she got the money from the I schoolmaster she immediately purchased 5 boots for the boys in the college. AfI ter that she went to the South Island. I "She was a well-spoken young woman I of about twenty- four years then," he \ said, "and I remember that she had a jj very hard hand. I don't think I have I ever felt any woman's hand that was bo hard as hers. She seemed a very \ nice woman, and it was a great surprise 1 to me when I found her name in the | Gazette." t