ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14439, 4 February 1909, Page 5

ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES.

{From Ouit Own Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, February 2. May Hullel, alias Curtain, alias Jiaker. alias Jiatmermaii, who passed herself off as a niece of the late Premier of England. appeared at- the Magistrate's Court-to-day. charged with having, on January 25, at Wellington, obtained from Walter Clifford the sum of £50 by menus of a false pretence—to wit, by representing that she was a niece of the late Sir Henry Campbell-Baimerman. .Mr Riddell. S.M., was on the bench, and accused was represented by Mr Wiliord. Chief Detective M'Grath applied for a remand for a week, but this application was opposed by counsel for the defence. His client-, he said, lad been arrested on Saturday. He objected to lurtber delay, and asked thataccused inyht be tried" by jury at the coming sitting of the Supreme Court, lbe remand, however, was granted, the ca.se to come before the court on the' 10th inst. Bail was allowed in tile sum of £50. and two sureties of £25 each. -Accused was recently a nurse girl in the family ol a well-known lawyer here, blither services were dispensed with Mid she went- Christ church. She returned as Miss C ampbell-Bannei'inan." and broughta letter of introduction from the wife ot a Christchurch lawyer. Armed with this she got to know a number of well-known Wollinutou pfpiiLe,