ANOTHER PLUCKY WOMAN .
The Auckland correspondent of an ex change sayß : —For some time past constant complaints have been received by the police regarding tho way Jn whioh country and suburban houses are visited by tramps and others, who lift everything whioh they can carry away. At length one of these miscreants has been secured, mainly through the Instrumentality of the wife of a settler named Oharles Worrell. He proved to be a well. known character named Henry Atkln, alias Dalton, alias Millwood. The prisoner appeared at the Police Court charged with vagrancy. Mrs Catherine Worrell deposed that on the 28th March she saw a man listening at her door. He subsequently entered the house, and she met him. cots ing out of her bedroom. He refuß?d to come with her to her husband, and she caught hold of him and called out for assistance. Some neighbors came and secured him The prisoner was sentenced to three montha' imprisonment for vagrancy, and committed for trial on four charges of larceny from dwellings traced to him after hia arrest..
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1529, 11 April 1887, Page 3
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178ANOTHER PLUCKY WOMAN. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1529, 11 April 1887, Page 3
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