A FASCINATING LADY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8650, 3 August 1908, Page 5

A FASCINATING LADY.

GAY BACHELORS OF AUCKLAND. , LAY THEIR HEARTS AT HER FEET. AUCKLAND, August 1. A young and well-dressed woman of rather fascinating appearance ha-3 been having a flutter in society circles in several country towns in Auckland, and numerous gay young bachelors who have laid their hearts at her feet are feeling rather pained just now. The young woman, May Ilallott by name and with several aliases, appeared at the Cambridge Police Court yesterday in answer to a charge of obtaining board and ' inHsjinga at.thn National Hotel for her- ! self and by /ulso pretences. Sh? pleaded guilty. Chief-Detect iv<3 jVfarsaek prosecuted, and explained that the false pretences were partly by inference and partly by word. Tho young woman represented herself as one of a party of tourists who wero touring tho colonics, and that her imaginary friends would follow her. She even engaged rooms for thein. The detective stated that accused, after leaving Auckland some days ago, went to Hamilton, passing herself off as a Miss Baker. Sho left for the Thames without satisfying tho hotelkeeper. At tho Thames she stayed at a good hotel as the Honourable Miss Collard, and mixed with the elite of the tow.n. While, there sho induced a young girl named Evelyn Pearce to accompany her on her tour at a salary of 25s a week and all expenses. Together they arrived at Cambridge, and after being there a short while she and her maid went to tho station, accused boarding the train with the intention, as sho stated, of meeting her friends at Ruakura Junction. She did not return, however, and . was arrested at Auckland. Miss Pearce brought little 01- no money away with her, and was practically left stranded. Tho detective - considered this one of the worst features of the case. Accused, it wa.s further stated, had threo previous convictions against her for theft of jewellery. On these charges she had been leniently treated, having been sent to St. Mary's Home under a bond of good behaviour, but tliir- had been broken. She had arrived from England by the Fifeshire under engagement as a domestic to a Gisborne lady, but had remained in Auckland. Accused was sentenced to one month's imprison,- | ment. j