SENTENCE REDUCED
BY A PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE
LONDON, November 1. Catherine Bird, a fifty-five-year-old tailoress, was before the Marylebone magistrate on a charge of stealing stockings and handkerchiefs worth £2 12s 9d from an Oxford Street store, when a grey-haired little-man with rosy cheeks and a gristly beard came from.the back of the court and stood by file dock. “Who’ is that?” asked the magistrate. •» He was informed that the. man Wanted to marry Bird. The magistrate, having seen the woman’s record of shoplifting said, “I think he will hav& .U bad Jinie if he does.” i
At the invitation of the magistrate, the man entered the witness box. He gave the name of George Hillier, and in reply to the magistrate’s question, “Are you thinking of marrying this woman, really?” he gave a most definite reply to the affirmative.
Mr Hay Halket: You can marry her all right when she comes out, cannot you? It will give you time to prepare for the wedding? I cannot let her off, but if you will marry her I will give her four months’ hard lnbour instead of sixi”
The man assured the magistrate find the w >man was sentenced to four months’. ’
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1932, Page 2
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201SENTENCE REDUCED Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1932, Page 2
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