RETAILERS DEFRAUDED.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18229, 13 November 1924, Page 10

RETAILERS DEFRAUDED.

SIX CHARGES AGAINST WOMAN.

(srxcUL to "ths pbjssb.") AUCKLAND, November 12. About a fortnight ago the Christchurch police were looking for a young woman on charges of theft and breaking the terms of her release cm probar i.ion. It was thought that she had gone to. Australia. She obtained permission from the Probation. at Ohriatchurch to go but did not register at Wellington. A week ago Detective ® ar ! m S ed the young lady in Auckland and took £rtatocu,W this morning, before Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., 'Nina Maiy Lang (22) appear&d in answer to the following charges. ( ) With intent to defraud obtaining from John Court, Ltd., five handkerchiefs and two frocks, of a total value of £lO 118 4d, by falsely representing that she was Maureen Jamieson ot Long i«oKout (Invercargill) and that she had an account with the National. Bank Now Zealand at li«vercargill; (2) obtaining one frock, ribbon, and a cape valued at £8 14s, by the same false pretence; (3) obtaining one spray, one hat velvet fold, and a pair of hose, valued at £1 17s 6d; (4) obtaining one pair of ear-rings and beads valued at lis 3d, and (o) obtaining one coat, a pair of pyjamas, a pair of gloves, and a bag, of a total value of £8 lis 6d, also by false presences. She was further charged with stealing a cheque, to the value of £6 9s 6d, the property cf Harry Anderson, of Christchurch. .. Accused, who was not represented by counsel, pleaded guilty to all the charges. . Chief-Detectiive Cummings said that accused was arrested at Auckland on November sth by Detective Barling. She had been getting goods by stating that she was the . daughter of Mrs T. H. Lowry, of Hawke's Bay, the wife of a well-known horse-owner, and sometimes that she was Maureen Jamieson, of Long Lookout (Invercargill). In March, 1923, ehe was admitted to three years' probation for theft, bu.t cleared out and came to Auckland, where she put up at a leading private hotel/ paying £1 4s a week for board. Of the £3O 8s od, the value of the goods secured by the accused, £27 worth had been recovered. The rest had been given .to her .gentlemen friends as presents. When asked if she had anything to spy accused said: When I left home I had very few clothes. I was looking for a position and intended paying for them. I paid for some that I got from Milne ana Choyoe. Mr _ Poynton said it would only be imposing on rthe public if he let accused off lightly. She would be sentenced to twelve months' reformative detention. On the charge of the theft o"f the cheque she was remanded to appear at Ohri Vchurclu As ehe left tho dock accused burst into laughter.