WIFE’S FORGED CHEQUES

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 June 1937, Page 4

WIFE’S FORGED CHEQUES

HAD BEEN BLACKMAILED. LONDON, May 12. Archibald I‘Tcdcriuk Caddick, .CG-a week business man. who ‘‘did not warn children,’’ heard at the Old Bailey that his young wife was led into crime when she thought she was to become a mother. Twenty.six-year-old Nancy Caddick who was a typist before she married, was described in Court as “a sweet girl wiih a splendid character.” Iml she pleaded guilty to forging and nt lering cheques Io the value of E 155, ami was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. While the husband sal in the public benches only a few yards away from ills smart, attractive wife in the dock. Mr. Lawrence Vine, who defended, said "the husband made it clear at the < nisei of their marriage that at that period they were not to have any children.

"Later, when she thought she was going to have a child, ami upset, at Ute prospect of having children against his whiles, she replied to a box number advertisement in a magazine which suggested a remedy." A coloured man who represented h’mself to be an Indian doctor, called t<i see her, was paid L‘2s, then startedj to blackmail her. She had turned to forgery io get money to meet his de-i imiuds. | Mr. C. G. du Cann, prosecuting, said' the police were satisfied that her hits-; hand knew nothing about the matter. | Inspector Leslie said that Mrs. Cad-' die],- told him that she had been blackmailed to the extent of C 215. Her husband •mid. "1 did not v-ant children—then."