A DANGEROUS WOMAN.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14742, 22 October 1915, Page 4

A DANGEROUS WOMAN.

REMARKABLE CAREER OF FRAUD. remarkable story was told at Wingham sessions by Chief Countable Stoch concerning the career of a woman'kndfrn aa Mary Aileen Gardner, who was .convicted on a charge of masquerading, jh the uniform of a Red Cross nurse at Aih, near Canterbury, on August 5. 'Hie accused. Who was born in Dublin, went to Chatham at an early age with her parents. When ,18 years of age sbs married a journeyman carpenter! by whom she had two children. After' Generating from him she obtained a situation at Earl’s Court, and while there she posed to a lady, whose acquaintance she made, as an heiress and ward of Chancery. She was first convicted at Worthing, and was sent to a home. Since 1906 she had been convicted of seven cases of felony, at York, Queensferry, Edinburgh, aud liochester, and bigamy at Edinburgh. Superintendent Stone said the accused wore tl\e uniform of a nurse so that she might get into decent society, aud then took the opportunity of stealing everything she could lay her hands on. As a matter of fact, she knew nothing about nursing. She embarked on the most extraordinary adventures utterly regardless of the consequences. According to the late Sir Thomas Clouston, meolcal expert at Mrrningside Asylum, she was insane and a danger to the community. She was “a human being devoid of any seme of right and wrong.” Sentence of six montlis’ imprisonment was passed. CANADA GIVING ALLIES FIVE SUBMARINES. Pacific Coast shipping circles have learnt with satisfaction that Canada's mid-winter donation to the came of the Allies in the European war will be five submarines cf tire latest design. Thefte . will be shipped late in February from North Vancouver, 8.C., where they are under construction, the work having been begun, less than one month ago. Those participating in the contract arc declared to,bo the' Electric Boat Company, cf New York, the Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Company of Seattle, and the Union Iron Works, of San Francisco. During the last month feverish activity has been reported at the. San Francisco Dnirn Iron Works, where employees have freely admitted they have been working day and night building submarines, and it is a foregone conclusion that Uncle Sam is not in any urgent need of submersibles. Only recently twelve of the latest, type of submarines were despatched from the Ouincy Shipbuilding Works, near Boston, Ma c s-'ohuaetts, , to Montreal, for the British Government.. Naturally the "divers" .were sent in sections. These twelve submarines are now in the service of the AllUq, Attempts were made to bush on th<f departure M .the,- Awelyn vcue-els, but the secret leaked out in the Eus'ern' newspapers. The United States Government, howeverf' issued oh order forbiddine tin submarines under construction st. the Fore Shipbuilding Wor'-s for the Allies from leaving the shipbuilding yards.