A FEMALE SCAMP.
ALLEGED TO BE A BURGLAR. ARTFUL EXCUSES. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Recoivcd 1.12 a.m., Feb. 6. Melbourne, Fob. 5.
A fashionably-drossed woman narnoc Kate Porter, has boon committed for trial on a charge of houso-breaking, and a second charge of stealing from a dwelling,
The arrest was tho outcome of numerous robberies in the suburbs. In several instances when discovered on the premises and surrounded by displaced drawers and hastily collected valuables, she innocently explained that she was under tho impression that she was in the house of a friend upon whom she was playing a practical joke, pretonding to be a burglar. She showed groat distress and profusely apologised on being informed of her mistake in supposing it was her friend’s house.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 819, 6 February 1903, Page 2
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126A FEMALE SCAMP. Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 819, 6 February 1903, Page 2
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