A DANGEROUS WOMAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16619, 24 December 1924, Page 4

A DANGEROUS WOMAN.

ADDICTED TO MORPHINE.

EX-MATR-ON OF HOSPITAL,

(Per Pres? Association.)

AUCKLAND, last night

“The question is what is to be done, with this woman/ She is a. morphia maniac and a notorious criminal, and -she Should be sent back to Australia where she came from.” -So stated Mr. Poynton, S.M., at the conclusion of the hearing of -a case at tho Police Court this morning, concerning a nurse who was convicted on charges of false Accused was Margaret Beatrice Brodie, and she was charged with obtaining goods to the value of £66 13s 9d and money totalling £8 by false pretences, attempting to obtain goods valued at £l6 9s 8d from Smith and Caughey, Ltd., by false pretenefls, and with failing to account to Nora Bennett for the sum of £3 12s. Accused was a former matron of the Warkworth Hospital and in October obtained a position under the Hospital Board as matron in charge at Warkworth. She was arrested in Hawke’s Bay under another name. -She told a detective tha-t she was a drug addict and had been taking morphia daily for two years. Accused admitted a- series of previous convictions at Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne, and Sydney, principally false pretences. The Magistrate described the accused as a dangerous woman who should bo returned to Australia, or should be imprisoned for as Jong as possible. She was remanded for sentence.