“LIE AFTER LIE”
VtMAN'S SHOCKING FRAUDS Pleading “ Guilty ” to defrauding a woman of 73 of sums totalling £1,500, Annie Forman, aged 61, described bv the police as a woman with “ a fearful record,” was at London Sessions sentenced to three years’ penal servitude. Mr R. E. Seaton, for the prosecution, said that Forman went into the knitting shop of a Miss Florence Edith Hodgins in search of work. She told Miss Hodgins that she had broken her spectacles, and tho shopkeeper advanced her money to have them repaired. Forman returned the loan, but later, realising Miss Hodgins was a generous-hearted woman, she told her lie after lie and got various suras of money out of her. Miss Hodgins had parted with all the money she had, and for the first time in her life was in debt.
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Evening Star, Issue 23565, 2 May 1940, Page 11
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137“LIE AFTER LIE” Evening Star, Issue 23565, 2 May 1940, Page 11
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