STOLE FOR HER CHILDREN.
How a mother stole to buy food for her eight children was related In the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when a married woman, whose name was ordered to he suppressed, pleaded guilty to the I heft of £1 ss. Chief-Detective Ward said that the accused was given the money m a sealed envelope by a neighbour and asked to take it to a Government. Department as house rent. On her return she said that she had given it to a messenger, who had promised to deliver it, but when it was found that the money had not reached its destination she was interviewed, and admitted having stolen it to buy food for her starving children. Restitution had been made.
The accused was convicted and discharged.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3806, 16 June 1928, Page 2
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129STOLE FOR HER CHILDREN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3806, 16 June 1928, Page 2
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