MEN LOSE THEIR MONEY

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1933, Page 5

MEN LOSE THEIR MONEY

A WOMAN'S FRAUD

THREE MONTHS' GAOL

A sentence.of three months' imprisonment was imposed on Nellie Limpus, aged 50, by Mr. E. Page, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon on two charges of obtaining sums of money amounting to £60 from two men by faise prrtenccs. After "The Post" went to press yes- j terday, Mr. P. B. Fitzherbert, who had previously stated that the defendant had sufficient equity in some furniture to cover the amount owed to the two men, said that he had been unable to get the witness ho wanted on the question of the furniture. He then called the defendant to give evidence. In the witness-box Mrs. Limpus said' that she had advertised for a partner, as she wanted someone to help her run the boarding-house, and wanted money to enlarge her business. The money she received had all been spent in connection with the business, and nothing on herself. She'was willing to repay the money as soon as she could. Witness ■was indefinite as to her equity in the furniture, but said that she had other assets, including linen and household utensils. After counsel had addressed the Court Mr. - Page said that the representation made by the defendant in reßpect of the complainant Vibond was that she had eleven boarders. It seemed to him that a man lending money would want to know what was the extent of the boarding operations that she was carrying on. He thought that that must have been the most important phase of the proposition thai had been put to the complainant. Witnesses had said that she had only four boarders, while she herseff had said in evidence that she had seven. The Magistrate held that this charge had been established, and also the other chargo which related to a man who had lent the defondant £20 on a somewhat ,simi lar- representation. The defendant, said Detective-Ser-geant Kevell, first came under the notice of the police in 1931 when she launched out on a series of "the most impertinent swindles that have been seen here- 'for many a day." On that occasion she obtained £705 in tha course of a few months from men who deposited bonds with her in the anticipation of getting jobs as lorry drivers. The whole of this money had been spent on extravagant living. After serving a sentence of twelve months' imprisonment she was released in October last. As soon as she was out she was back at the old business again. "Withnut a doubt," said Mr. Eevell, "she is becoming a menace to the community, and she is quite unscrupulous in the wayshe goes about things." "The Magistrate sentenced the defendant to three months' imprisonment on each charge, the terms to be concurrent.