FEMALE JEKYLL HYDE
CAUGHT IN THE ACT. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 31. (Received July 31, 7.40 p.m.) A female Jekyll and Hyde was sentenced to fourteen months’ imprisonment at the Middlesex Sessions. It was revealed that Bertha Cruch, a married woman, devoted mother, and a respectable shopkeeper by day, committed expert burglaries single-handed by night. She was always well-dressed on these expeditions, wearing a fur coat, evening dress, silk underclothing, and rings worth £235. She was finally trapped in a drawing-room while in the act of committing a burglary.
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Southland Times, Issue 19311, 1 August 1924, Page 5
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