THEFT OF JEWELLERY
AN ACTRESS ACQUITTED. (Rec. July 17, 5.5 p.m.) London, July 16. Victoria Monks, tho actress, who, with Arthur Simonds, was last month committed for trial on a charge of theft, has been acquitted. Simonds withdrew' his plea of not guilty, but subsequently alleged that ho withdrew it at his counsel’s investigation, nnd never meant that /he was guilty of stealing, but possessed guilty knowledge. The recorder did not accept tho explanation, and sentenced Simonds to eighteen months’ imprisonment. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [The evidence at the hearing of the ■case in tho lower court showed that the owner inadvertently left a dressing-case in a taxi. The prosecution suggested that Monks and Simonds engaged the taxi, and appropriated the jewellery, a portion of which a London pawnbroker handed over to the police. Monks’s maid gave evidneo as (o pawning identified jewellery on behalf of her mistress.]
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 251, 18 July 1921, Page 5
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147THEFT OF JEWELLERY Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 251, 18 July 1921, Page 5
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