WOMAN’S IMPOSTURES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 January 1932, Page 4

WOMAN’S IMPOSTURES

LOANS FROM DOCTORS. AUCKLAND, Wednesday. A record of a woman’s imposure was outlined in the Police Court, when Mary Augusta Ilodson, aged 44, cook, pleaded guilty to a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond. The police said Ilodson came from Ngatea, in the Hauraki Plains, in Christmas week, and ran up an account with a taxi driver. She called on a Well-known surgeon, giving the name of a prominent farmer’s wife at Ngatea. After arranging for an examinationj she asked the surgeon for a loan until she could communicate with her husband. He’ found the name the woman gave in the directory, and being assured, lent her £2/5/-. Ilodson next went to an undertaker, and gave the name of another Plains farmer. She said her husband’s assistant had just died, and she would arrange for the burial. The woman described the body and gave measurements, She then borrowed £l. Hodson visited two other doctors, and, telling similar tales to the first, she obtained £2/5/- from each.

All/the money was spent on drink. Accused had been imprisoned last June for three months for taking down dentists. The magistrate to-day sentenced her to six months’ imprisonment.