POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18772, 28 July 1924, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

YOUNG WOMAN IMPOSTOR.

LIST OF OFFENCES EXTENDED.

A .brief sitting of the Police Court was hold on Saturday before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M. .

Eight charges of having obtained sums of. money totalling £8 17s, by false pretences, were admitted by Ivy Helen Dias, the young woman who recently achieved notoriety by imposing upon various individuals with " hard-luck " stories.

Senior-Detea&ive Hammond said tho offences were similar to those upon which accused had been previously convicted. In most cases the young womaif had obtained the money by representing that her sister was in the hospital. The offences resulting in tho present charges had all been committed prior to the conviction of accused in the Police Court, and the publicity given to her apprehension had resulted in the detection of the additional offences.'

Adjutant Gordon said that acuaed had behaved well since her release upon probation.

Mr. Hunt: I will not alter the terms of her probation, but she will have to make restitution of the additional amounts...

BREACH OP PROBATION.

Walter Worthington, aged 35, was charged with having failed to oomply with the terms of his release upon probation. The probation officer stated that accused neglected to report regularly. He bad caused his wife much distress by sending her a letter in which he intimated that his body woutd be found on the beach. The magistrate imposed a sentence of one month's imprisonment. DISORDERLY BEHAVIOUR. For disorderly behaviour while drunk, Joseph Tiller, ap;ed 48, was fined £2, in default seven days' imprisonment. ' GIRL NOT SENT TO SCHOOL.

For failing to send his 11-year-old girl to school, a man fined 10s and ordered to pay costs.