The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-25 00:00:00

COMMITTAL OF' THR FEMALE IMPOS-
TER AT CANTIMBURT.

CANTERBURY, Monday.—At the St. Augustine's
petty sessions, before Edward Foss, Esq., and other
county justices, the rival of Alice Gray, Mary Eliza Tre-
maine, with many other aliases, has just been committed
to prison for two months, ou the charge of obtaining
board, lodging, and money under false pretences, at the
parish of Ospringe, on the 7th inst.
From time statement of Superintendent Waker, of the
Kent constabulary, and a pile of letters which he had
received since the remand of the prisoner, it appears
that for the last fifteen years she has run a career of
imposition, under various characters—that of a con-
vert to Romanism being a favourite one. Her real
name is Tremaine, and she is the natural daughter of
a gentleman of the name of Chippendale, who placed
her at a boarding school in the north of England,
from which place she ran away when hardly 15 years
of age, and immediately commenced a course of life of
so gross a nature a; to cause her friends tp discard
her. Her mother was burnt to death. In 1843 she
obtained access into the house of Major A. A. Young,
of the Coast Guard, at Sheringham, Cromer, while his
family were residing at Whitmore, Staffordshire, where
she remained for six weekte when the imposition was
discovered, and she left, and proceeded to Liverpool. In
184 G this imposter was taken to the office of the Men-
dicity Society, in London, under the name of Mary Hal-
lawap, and represented that she had been a nursery go-
verness, lint was in great distress, in consequence of
having been thrown out of employ. Inquiry was inqi-
tuted, and it was ascertained that she was oee of the
greatest adepts at fraud in the metropolis. TNO years
afterward=, in 1848, she was found apparently in a fit iu
Liverpool, and placed in a seminary by a lady residing in
that town, where she subsequently committed a felony,
and was imprisoned for nine months in the Liverpool
Borough Gaol. Some little time afterwards she made her
appearance at Darlington, where she was found in the
streets in great distress. Joseph Pease, the quaker, hear-
ing of her c,ndition, placed her in a good school, where she
remained for about nine months, and then ran away.
In 1852 she succeeded in imuosing upon a Mr. Rogers,
at Norwich, and a Mrs. Wiseman, at Tivetshall, near
Soule, Norfolk, and was taken before the magistrates,
but dischargeal, as the offence could not be clearly made
out against her. She hat then, according to her state-
ment, run away from her father's house, for the purpose
of being married, but had missed her suitor. In October
of the same year we find her in custody of the county
police at Bedford, on charges of obtaining money under
false pretences, in the name of Matilda Jane Callaway
nook, Lyle, Dale, and Chippendale. In July, 1853,
she was sentenced to fourteen days in Windsor gaol,
having obtained things under false pretences, represent-
ing that she had just arrived from Australia, and was
in search of her sister, a member of the Baptist deno-
mination of that town. At another period of the
same year, the vicar of Trumpington placed her in
a private asylum, with the view of effecting her
reformation, when she confessed to a great deal
of deceit and imposture, and pretended to be
desirous of abandoning her then mode of life. This turned
out, however, only another of her schemes of imposition.
The early part of 1854 found " Mary Eliza" at Dover
and Canterbury, running away from her father, a bap-
tist, who wished her to join that persuasion ; but she
rather inclined to the church of Rome, and was then in
search of a convent. She then wended her way to Der-
byshire, and under pretence that she was the daughter
of Dr. Hoek, of Leeds, obtained access to the house of
Mr. Smedley, near Matlock, and was treated very kindly
for about three months. Is the following November the
kindness of Mr. Pease was repaid by the impostor repre-
senting herself as his daughter, obliged to leave home
because she wished to be married to a gentleman not be-
longing to the Society of Friends. For that offetice she was
imprisoned in Northallerton House of Correction for three
mouths. During the past summer her "ladyship" was
boarded and lodged in the house of a London missionary
for three months, when she suddenly disappeared, taking
with her several articles belonging to her benefactor.
After visiting Oxford, the workhouse, the gaol, and seve-
ral private houses, " Mary Jane" proceeded to Henley-
on-Thames, from which place she was sent to Oxford
Gaol for three weeks. It would appear that she then
wended her way to Canterbury. In addition to the
above facts, it may be stated tleat she has been placed in
a great number of asylums and schools.
The magistrates ordered her to be *imprisoned with
hard labour for two months as a rogue and vagabond.

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