FALSE PRETENCES
CHARGE AGAINST WOMAN “SOMETHING OF AN ADVENTUEESS.” [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, May 18. “She is something of an adventuress,” remarked the chief detective in the Police Court, when a well-dress-ed young woman of 25, named Mina Mary Lang, pleaded guilty to two charges of false pretences.
The detective said the accused arrived from Christchurch last month and stayed at a first-class hotel. She went to a drapery firm and told an elaborate story about wealthy parents who owned a sheep station at Taradale, and on the strength of this obtained clothing valued at over £7, then proceeding to a boot shop and telling much the same story, and obtaining shoes. Subsequently she went to the country, whore she was arrested. She had convictions at both Christchurch and Auckland.
The gaol matron said that accused at Christchurch embezzled over £lOO by opening her employer’s leters and extracting cheques. She had been on probation. Accused was remanded.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19844, 19 May 1927, Page 11
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