GAOL SENTENCE.
AN AUCKLAND CASE. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Jan. 31. Pleading guilty to ten charges _ of theft, a well-dressed woman, Alicia MacGilray, aged 58, a widow, who recently arrived from Australia, was sentenced in the Police Court to one month’s imprisonment on one charge. The Magistrate (Mr F. K. Hunt") said arrangements might be made to put her on a vessel sailing for Australia on February 5. The police said MacGilray arrived at Auckland on January 7. On January 15 she visited the shop of a Chinese at Point Chevalier and purchased goods valued at Is 4d; tendering £l, she received 18s 8d in change. While she engaged the Chinese in conversation she told him he had given her the wrong change, making half a crown disappear and showing him the remainder of the money. He gave her another half a crown. “This woman has been taking down practically all the other shopkeepers in the district in the same way,” said the detective-sergeant. Counsel for MacGilray said she arrived with £4B, hut had given nearly all to her son, who was in straitened circumstances. She was very much ashamed of herself.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 54, 1 February 1938, Page 9
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192GAOL SENTENCE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 54, 1 February 1938, Page 9
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