GETTING RICH QUICK.
LADY CASHIER’S LAPSE. CURIOUS STORY OF EXTRAVAGANCE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright United Service. (Received December 4, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, November 29. A curinus story of extravagance was told at the Manchester Assizes. Mary Bradj, the young cashier of a shipping firm, was charged with defrauding her employers of £23.000, of which £B4OO has been recovered. She lived a brief career like a millionairess, wearing expensive furs, entertaining troops of friends and gambling hea.vilv. Her personal display aroused the' firm’s suspicions and led to her detection. The prisoner admitted defrauding her employers of £IO,OOO. She was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19814, 4 December 1919, Page 7
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