AN EXTRAORDINARY IMPOSTURE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2486, 27 April 1909, Page 5

AN EXTRAORDINARY IMPOSTURE.

A FEMALE “BRIDEGROOM.”

[Per Press Association.]

DUNEDIN, April 26. “L. C. Redwood” was arrested at Nugget Bay yesterday afternoon, and ’brought- t-o Balclutha in the evening. Redwood, who has been posing as a man, turns out to be a woman named Amy Bock, with several aliases, who has been before the Court several times during the last twenty years on charges of false pretences. In January last she was in service in Dunedin, and during the absence on holidays of her employer she borrowed money on the furniture. It is on that charge she is now arrested. She is about 40 years of ago, and highly accomplished. The police have been looking for her for tho past three 'months, but found no trace of her till Saturday last, when something they heard about a recent wedding put them on the track. It is said that Bock, in man’s attire, ’stayed at Ottaway’s boarding-house, Nuggets, and succeeded in winning the hand of the proprietor’s daughter, tho wedding being co.ebrated 'last week in great stylo, Mr. Malcolm, M.P., being among the guests. The prisoner, still in man’s clothes, was brought to Dunedin this mroning. With her hair cut short, and dressed in the latest fashion, Amy Bock, who posed as Percy Carol .'Redwood, nephew of Archbishop Redwood, became a very pronounced favorite, at Nuggets. She had plenty of money, and represented that her wealthy mother lived in the Waikato. Tho wedding last week at Nuggets was on a big scale. Mr. Malcolm, M.P., and the officiating clergyman made speeches eulogistic of the bride and bridegroom, and the Cl nth a paper gift® a lengthy report of the proceedings.