NIMBLE NESSIE NICKED.

NZ Truth, Issue 472, 4 July 1914, Page 4

NIMBLE NESSIE NICKED.

Taxi-Maiden Takes Down Trinket Trader. Christchurch Jeweller Juggled. \ (From "Truth's" ChrUtchureh i *■• ' The downfall of Noasle Carter, it particularly propossesslng place of petticoat,- who la only a couple of years beyond flapperhood, came with startling suddenness on Tuesday last, when , she side-tracked from a deulre for j frills and flounces, and set out to land t trinkets of greater value. On Monday last, Mr. Watson, who runs .a couple of Jewellery joints m Christchurch, .received a raestw.so on tho telephone from a lady, who explained that she was Mrs. Tom Cowllshaw. Bho told Watson that It was her niece's birthday, and would Mr, Watson allow tho young lady to cHooho a nlco present for herself when sho call-' ed In In tho afternoon? Mr. Watson would be only too pleased. Later, an elegantly-appointed buxK car pulled up at his joint and disgorged A CHARMING YOUNG THING, who chose a neat gold watch, worth £7 10s. and reckoned that "auntie" would bo very pleased with' her choice. Towards ovenlng, Jowoller Watson received another "ring" to the effect that Mrt. Tom CowlUhaw was delighted with her nloce'a present, and mentioned that Mr. Cowlishnw had also decided to pay for a present, for which tho young lady would call. The "nlceo" duly arrived, and this Urn?. solocted a ring valdod at £5 10s. By the time sho had got well away, Mr. Watson's "doots" began to trouble him. Ho rang up Mrs. Cowllshaw, who reckoned aho knew nothing about tho transaction of the afternoon. Tho /sleuth Department then took a hand, and 'Tecs. Ward' and Gibson stuck up a taxi-man, wtyo waa juat going to Fapariui under commission to a young lady who pretty well answered descriptions. Sending out a car'ag a decoy, the. 'tecs, followed. When tho taxi und 'too*, arrived at Us destination, the other flash »llnk-wttgson wan tlrnwti up ready to taken |>arty of young; ladloi for a ta-ta. Buro enough. Ne»- j slo wait SHOUTING THUS OUTING, Bhe was wearing the jrnvellnry chonen by her from Watson'n »tov:k. Tho iwn. collected the little Irtdry und «e«rrhrd her room, which yielded a ntnall emporium of vartou» goojl«. It scema that Kca«l-/ Jia« lately made fm [

good use ot a Christchurch taxi firm, whom slic informed that aho wa» the daughter o£. Tom Cowiishaw. One night last week, us she was motoring homo, her car collided with another one, und Nesale, who escaped unhurt, was shrewd enough to telephone the proprietors of the taxi and nsk them to keop hor name out ot the papers, Nessle's record la quite a formidable one. Besides having lived at several flash, boardlhghouses under assumed names, nnd flitting without paying, the young lady Is well Known to the John Department. On Murch 0, 1912, Nessie was convicted on two charges of theft and sent to the Salvarmy Home for twelvo months. In 1913 she figured In two false pretences cases and \va« sentenced to two years' reformative treatment. Sho was. however, RELEASED ON PROBATION j only Hvo weeks ugo. I On Wednesday last, Nessio tripped } before Mr. 11. W. Bishop, -S.M.. and charged that sho had obtained ono pair of shoes valued at £1 from Messrs Dv Feu and Company, Chrititchurch, by ittlsely pretending to charge them to Mrs. Henry Cotterlll, and thut on Monday, June 30, «he had obtained one gold wntch und ring, valued at £13. tho property of Messrs. Watson and Company, by falsely pretending lo l>c v hlecc of Mrs. T. Cowllshnw, of Chrlstchurch. Koasle, rlgßed \»P In a big brimmed velvet hat and with her pretty dial surrounded by furs, pleuded guilty. On tho first charge she was sentenced to throe months' Imprisonment wUh hard labor, and on the second cpunt wiu» ordered to be detained for a ycar'H reformative treatment, to commence lit tho expiration of tlio term to which ; hlicwus sentenced m 1913. j Nessio recolvod tho sentence with n ; •nonchnlance which plainly signified that Bho had had her pound of fun and dldn',t care v continental for the consequences.