A Peculiar Case.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Ouktstchitrch, Wednesday. A woman named Johanna Moore was committed for trial yesterday under a charge of larceny, the circumstances of which are peculiar. It appears that two ladies were at the Christchurch railway station last Saturday, and went to a private apartment, m which one of them j left her purse containing over £200. The { accused entered an apartment just after and pocketed the purse. : She did not give information to the police or the railway authorities, but hurried away m company with a friend. The lady having missed her purse, and remember- , ing where she had left it, suspicion was directed to the woman Moore, who was called back by a constable. She did not then tell him of her find, and it was only when directly asked if she had found auy money that she produced the missing purse. Mr Beetham, R.M., considered the case to be just on the borderland between larceny and no larceny, and left it for a jury to determine whether there was any intention to steal.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 5, 4 June 1885, Page 2
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179A Peculiar Case. Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 5, 4 June 1885, Page 2
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