PREFERRED GAOL.
» WOMAN'S UNUSUAL PLEA. A very unusual statement w.19 made in tho Magistrate's Court on Saturday morning by a woman wlio was before tho Court because she had escaped from tho Salvation Army Home, to which tho had been sent by tho magistrate. "I never had any desiro to go to tile Solvation Anny Home," sho remarked, "and if your Worship sends mo back I'll not stay." . The magistrate: Xou will bo ordered to return to tho home. The woman: Well, your Worship, I don't think it right that us unfortuuato women should be kept in an institution in which there aro a lot of young girls. Sucli a home is no placo to send us. I prefer to do my six months in gaol, Tho magistrate! You will bo scut back. .
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1789, 30 June 1913, Page 6
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133PREFERRED GAOL. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1789, 30 June 1913, Page 6
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