POLICE COURT
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. (Before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M.) DIDN’T LIKE ARMY HOME. “It’s all prayers and nothing to oat—l’d sooner go to gaol,” plaintively declared Sarah Elizabeth Smith (43) who pleaded guilty to escaping from the Salvation Army Home and to being drunk, having been twice previously convicted of drunkenness in the last six months. Senior-sergeant Vaughan told the court that the accused had been sent to the Home on July 23 for a period of 12 months and had, escaped from there yesterday and was arrested for drunkenness.
The magistrate told the accused she had been committed to the home for 12 months and would have to stay there.
“Can’t you send me to gaol?” pleaded the accused, who said she was given two hard crusts of bread at night, although she had no teeth. A Salvation Army officer informed the court that tke woman’s conduct had been good while she was at the home.
On the charge of escaping from the home, the defendant was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment, at the end of which she is to be returned to the
institution to complete her term there. On the other charge she was convicted and discharged. DRUNKENNESS. A fine of 10s, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment, was imposed upon Arthur Francis Munton, a statutory first offender, SENT TO GOAL. Robert Ryan pleaded guilty to the theft of a wireless set, valued at £lO, the property of Edward Farris. Detective-sergeant Le Sueur, who prosecuted, said that on April 20, the wireless set had been left in a rrfbtor truck outside an hotel. It was later found to be missing, and when Detective M'Dougall made inquiries he' found that the accused had been trying to sell a set for £6. Further inquiries were made and the accused admitted the offence. He had an Australian list of convictions as well as one he had built up here since hs arrived as a stowaway. “You have a very bad record for this sort of thing,” the magistrate told the accused in sentencing him to three months’ imprisonment.
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Evening Star, Issue 23681, 14 September 1940, Page 9
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