WOMAN SENT TO JAIL
Thefts While On Probation By Telegraph-Press Associaliou. AUCKLAND, March 21. A married woman who had previously been convicted on three occasions for theft and who committed three shoplifting offences while still on probation was sent to prison by Mr. Orr Walker, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court today. She was Nellie Josephine Magill, aged 34, ami she pleaded guilty to three charges of stealing on March 17 a variety of articles. The magistrate said Magill had been admitted to probation for two years last August, when she was convicted on four charges of theft. Evidently this had not succeeded in keeping her away from temptation. In 1929 she had been convicted and ordered to come up for sentence for theft. Then in 1934 on three charges she was again given another chance. “And now she is in trouble again,” said the magistrate. “She is flouting the law ami the conditions of her probation, so I do not propose to pass this over. Iler children can be looked after, and on that condition I am going to impose a short term of imprisonment.”
Magill was sentenced to two weeks in prison.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 151, 22 March 1939, Page 6
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193WOMAN SENT TO JAIL Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 151, 22 March 1939, Page 6
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