“|t is quite possible for people in noor circumstances to be holiest. Mi G. Cruickshank, S.M., remarked at the Christchurch Juvenile Court on Saturday when dealing with n thirteen-year-old girl who was charged with the theft of jewellery of the total value of bb. Her mother was charged with receiving the goods. Detective-Sergeant Connolly said that on March 10 the girl had gained entrance to a house in tbe city and had stolen two bracelets and a brooch. These she had taken home to her mother, who had subsequently pawned them for (is. The family was respectable, but in poor circumstances. “iVis horrible to think that the woman acted as she did,” the Magistrate said. “It was only teaching her child to steal: a very nasty thing.” The woman was convicted and ordered to come llp for sentence when called upon on condition that she refund 0s to the pawnbroker with whom she had pledged th» jewellery, and the girl xvas placed under the control of the juvenile probation officer for twelve months.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1925, Page 3
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