ONE LAW FOR RICH AND POOR
SOCIETY BEAUTY SENT TO PRISON FOR THEFT FRANK DECLARATION BY JUDGE London, November 17. “There must not be any suggestion > that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor in this country,” commented the judge >n sentencing Mrs. Lesly Gardiner, a prominent soci- . ety beauty, who was married last tear, ; to six mouths* imprisonment on a charge of stealing dressing-cases. Medical witnesses described her as having a morbid desire to possess the property of others. This was a form of mental insanity. . The Judge said be did not understand this. . Accused had been previously convicted in 1914. He declar- . ed: “I shall treat her just as I should the poorest woman in the land. Mental, insanity means nothing in this Court ft is common, vulgar stealing.”
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 47, 19 November 1926, Page 11
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136ONE LAW FOR RICH AND POOR Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 47, 19 November 1926, Page 11
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