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AMY BOCK BEFORE COURT. A NOTORIOUS MASQUERADER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HAMILTON, Wednesday. Memories of New Zealand’s greatest masquerade were revived by the appearance of Amy Maud Cliristofferson, formerly known as Amy Bock, in the Hamilton Court to-day on charges of false pretences.
The accused, who is now an old woman (72), had with plausible stories induced four women to advance her money aggregating £l6 10s. She peladed guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
(Amy Bock caused a sensation in New Zealand some thirty years ago by masquerading as a man. She went through a marriage ceremony in a town south of Dunedin with a woman, and in other ways carried out the deception until exposed by a journalist who later was on the staff of the “Wairarapa Daily Times.”)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 8 October 1931, Page 5
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