FEMALE IMPOSTOR

Evening Star, Issue 21005, 20 January 1932, Page 8

FEMALE IMPOSTOR

DOCTORS TAKEN IN [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, January 20. The record of a woman’s imposture was outlined in the Police Court to-day, when Mary Augusta Hodsqn (fortyfour), a cook, pleaded guilty to a charge of-being a rogue and a vagabond. The police said she came from Ngatea (Hauraki Plains) _ Christmas week, ran up an account with a taxidriver, and called on a well-known surgeon, giving e name of a prominent fanner’s wife at Ngatea. After arranging for an exaniinat; <n she asked the surgeon for a loan until she could communicate with her husband. He found tho name the woman gave in tbe directory, and, being thus assured, lent her £2 ss. She next went to an undertaker and gave the name of another Plains farmer. She said her husband’s assistant had just died, and she would arrange for the burial. She described the body and gave measurements, and then borrowed £l. She visited two other doctors, and telling tales similar to that to the first medical man obtained £2 5s from each. All the money had been spent. She was imprisoned last June for three months for taking down dentists. The magistrate to-day sentenced her to six months.