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THE FEMALE SWINDLER MISS WESTWOOD DISPOSED OF FOR THE NEXT TWELVE MONTHS.—The notorious Miss Westwood, alias Edith Vernon, alias Douglass, &c., &c., &c., the “clergyman’s daughter,” whose proceedings among the lodging-house keepers have rendered her notorious, has at length got her quietus, for a considerable time at all events. She was tried at the Hastings Quarter Sessions on Thursday last, for several swindles on lodging-house keepers, and was found guilty. She then pleaded guilty to a former conviction in November, 1859. The Recorder told prisoner as her previous conviction had been in 1859, he would give her one more opportunity for reformation, but she must recollect that if she were brought before any other tribunal on a future occasion, beyond all question she would be sent for penal servitude. One year’s imprisonment with hard labor. As she was leaving the dock prisoner said, in a low tone, that she had been sent to prison innocently twice before.
— Hampshire Independent, Saturday 18 July 1863 source