THE MASQUERADER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 108, 8 May 1909, Page 9

THE MASQUERADER.

AMY BOCK BEFORE THE COURT. rßx TKLM-RAFji —Special to The Pobt. 1 DUNEDIN, This Day. One' of the charges heard against Amy Bock y-esterday showed heartless conduct on her part in victimising a single woman named Henderson. Chief-Detective Herbert, in outlining the case, explained that accused was a single woman as far as the police knew. In January last she called at a boardinghouse kept by Mr. Butcher, at 65 Yorkplace, and was received there as a male boarder. She stayed for some time, off and on, and paid her board during the time she was there. After some weeks she went to the Nuggets, where .she remained for a considerable time. On the date of this alleged offence she returned to the boardinghouse in Dunedin, and there saw Mrs. Butcher's sister, Miss Henderson, to whom she told a story about a serious loss she had had at the Nuggets. She said she had been out fishing iv a boat with William Ottaway, and thoy were hauling in a large groper, when her pocket caught in the rowlock of the boat, with the result that her pocket-book dropped into the sea. She said it contained a £50 cheque, an 1.0. U. for £60 which she lent a man at Hanmer, and a large number of sovereigns. She added that she had come to town to get a diver from Port Chalmers to go to the Nuggets to find the pocketbook. She left the house for the purpose of getting a diver, she said, and returned an Hour or two later, stating that she had got one who would not go down for less than £50 down on the nail. She asked Miss Henderson if she could lend her the amount. Miss Henderson replied that she had not so much, but that she would lend her all she had. She went to tho Post Office Savings Bank in a cab vhirh accused had waking, and on these representations the complainant drew £40, all tlie money she had, and gave it to accused. Then the Irtter went away wiih tho money, and Miss Henderson had ne^er received it ,back, or any part of it. On the contrary, she hod spent other money on accused's account. Evi'J n nce was given by Miss Tlenderpon and a fisherman named William Ottmvny. Aroused was further charcje'd that on Bth March, at Romahapa, 'she did wilfully make, for purposes of being insprted in the marriage register book of the Rev. Mr. Rlathwayt, a false statement to Marcus Thoitas Jackson, Registrar of Marriages at Romahapa. touching particulars required to be known and registered under the provisions of the Marriago Act. 1908, to wit, that her name was Percivnl Leonard Carol Redwood, and that her condition was "bachelor." She was also charged with obtaining, on 15th April, £10 from B. S. Irwin by means of a faUe pretence. After evidence had been taken, Mr. Moore (counsel for accused) said his client would p!»od guilty to the three charges. It was stated by accused that Mr. Moore was giving the fee to which he was entitled to Mi*s Henderson. After prisoner had plended guilty to the three charges before the court that day, an application for bail was made on her behalf, it being stated that she would go into a home till she had to aprjpar for sentence. The magistrate (Mr. Bartholomew) snid he had carefully considered all the oiroumMances. nnd he did not think he would he acting in accordance with the directions and ridines .of thp Supreme Court if he granted bail. Bail was consequently refused.