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The Mayor has requested us to caution the gentry and tradesmen of the Borough against a woman about 35 years of age, 5 feet 2 inches high, slight made, dressed in half-mourning costume, native of Shrewsbury, assuming an air of respectability, now lodging in Frogmore Terrace. Her real name is Mary Westwood, but she assumes the names of Sarah Westwood, Sarah Rosa Westwood, Gertrude Neville, and Miss Welby. She was convicted May 19, 1857, at Cheltenham for unlawfully pawning property, and sentenced by the Magistrates to three calendar months’ imprisonment. She was in custody in the name of Sarah Westwood in the city of Gloucester jail, in October, 1857, and was ultimately discharged. In the name of Sarah Rosa Westwood she was convicted by the Sussex Magistrates, at Hastings, on the 24th November, 1859, for felony, and sentenced under the Criminal Justice Act to three months. She is exceedingly well known to the Police of Aberystwith, Carmarthen, Shrewsbury, Newport, and has been in custody in several other towns. Her line of conduct is to call upon, and by her plausible manners ingratiate herself into, the acquaintances of clergymen and dissenting ministers, especially single men, this being done to enable her to victimise all within her grasp. Should any of the inhabitants by this notice find that they have been imposed on by this adept in crime, by communicating with the Head Constable they will considerably assist in furthering the ends of justice.
— The Aberystwith Observer, Saturday 10 November 1860 source