BRIDE’S CLOTHES
GIRL’S SUDDEN TEMPTATION. FROCKS STOLEN IN SHOP. WELLINGTON, May 22,
“This girl was getting married, and wanted .clothes,” ■... said Sub-Inspector: Ward, when a, young woman, aged IS, appeared be.ore M/ E. Page. S.M.in the Police Court, to answer a charge of having stobn two ■ frocks, vann-u at £B/18/6 from a shop in the city mi March 28 last.
j lie . üb-luspector said that the girl had gone into the shop, and as none of the attendants were about she was seized with the temptation to take the two frocks
Counsel pleaded guilty on tile accused’s behalf, and said that the young man to whom she was to be married was prepared to fulfil the cprt<;;ait. He asked that her. ii.a.i,ne sljould.Jre sup* j:n s-ed. otherwise .the mgrriage would be wrecked bef(>.iu;,is/was enticed upon Tile magistrate. ,in admitting Jbe girl to probation for twelve montjys. said that she came, of respectable parents, and the |r<d»:vfioti officer’s rep r.t was favourable. An order was made sup-
pressing her name, but a conditirn was made that the accused would have to pay the cost <T the lyocks stolen, wliieb. would become her pn pertv as soon as she had paid for tl'eio.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1932, Page 3
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