ENJOYING LIFE
A WOMAN'S LIBERTY
THE BEST OF EVERYTHING
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHUBOH, This Day. During a brief but crowded period of: liberty, Nessie Norman, who has four aliases,; made a profitable shopping tour and obtained goods on credit by giving tho name of Mrs. Norman, of Lowry Hills. She also obtained the best of treatment at the rate of £.8 a week in a private hospital for goitre. Norman, who is 37, and is described as a domestic, was sentenced to, twelve months' imprisonment. She was charged with false pretences, and this is'her seventeenth conviction. ■ Describing the woman's stay in hospital, the chief detective said that as she was suffering from goitre she obtained the services of -a prominent doctor and wont into the private hospital. She took a, private room, and before she went in arranged with a florist to have flowors delivered each day, and also approached a wine and spirit firm for supplies of wine. The Magistrate,/ Mr. Young: "Did she have special, nurses?" The chief detective: "No, but she had just about everything else. She got rid of her goitre." She has been at this sort of tiling since 191 D."
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 93, 21 April 1931, Page 11
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196ENJOYING LIFE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 93, 21 April 1931, Page 11
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