TOLD TO BE GOOD.

NZ Truth, Issue 128, 30 November 1907, Page 6

TOLD TO BE GOOD.

Harboring an Absconder.

Just when the Christclmrch public are discussing the management of the Te Oranga Home, a young married woman named Mrs Eecs was. charged with 1 harboring her sister, an abscond cr. The case was heard the other day, and the girl, Ivy Eaton, fowl been licensed out to Mrs Wtilliams, of Kirwee, and came to Christchurch to have her teeth attended to a few months ago. She met her sister, Mrs Rees, who sought to give her a chance and get her situations. The gir-1 is unstable, 'and only stayed three weeks at one place, and from the second place she coolly walked away during the dinner hour. The rose-cheeked Miss went under the name of Kitty Andrews, and seems to

HAVE DRIFTED ABOUT from one relative to another, and Mrs Rees denied all knowledge of her when questioned by Constable McKeefry. The girl told Mrs Rees so many, lies, however, that she told the Sydenham police- of her whereabouts, and she was arrested.

Matron Brantling said m the box that Mrs Rees was always writing to Ivy inviting her to abscond. The defendant said she only sent one letter to that effect.. A young man was sitting m her kitchen one night, and she mentioned that her sister was m the Home. "Get her out and I'll go with her," he said, and she wrote to that effect, but she meant nothing by it jf she didn't mean that her sister was to lead an immoral life ; far from it. In all her other letters she told her to be good. Magistrate Day. fined defendant £1 and costs.