AN ADVENTURESS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5552, 25 February 1886, Page 3

AN ADVENTURESS.

-o A New York writer complains of the number of female swindlers in I that city. The latest is the wife of & dead English lord. She gave a couple of sharp old ladies some worthless cheques in payment for her board, and as a natural consequence, brought up in gaol. It would seem that this class of adventurers are seldom without friends. A very fine lady went through a dozen hotels here, living at the rate of a hundred to a hundred and fifty dollars a week. None but the best apartments suited her, and she rode from place to place, not in an ordinary turnout, but in a private carriage, with coachman and footman in livery, so that everybody thought she was rolling in wealth. At last the calls for the payment of bills became pressing, when all at once the hotel was startled with the announcement that the lady's room had been entered and 10.WKV dols worth of diamonds had been stolen. Waiters were called up and examined j chambermaids were overhauled ; bell boys were scrutinised ; but nothing was found. Just in the nick of time a detective dropped in, and gobbled the lady, when a list of her swindles appeared longer than the moral law. Just as matters were coming to a head, a kind-hearted old gent was induced by her daughter to come forward and settled all her bills, and she walked out of court a free woman, although atone time it appeared as if she would land in the penitentiary.