FOR HER CHILDREN

NZ Truth, Issue 1108, 24 February 1927, Page 5

FOR HER CHILDREN

her^ildren Frail Mother's Plunge intoiGnme

(From "N.Z. TnJWr Special AuckReal wUls an affliction beyond the comprehension of the average man or woman who enjoys three meals a-day, wears good olothes -'SSK?*fe. 2^ UOR this reason, If for no other, most A people are inclined to be the reverse pf syE[lE^hetio with the -m the country. The breadwinner for the wife and three young children was a laborer m poor Sircumstarioes, and it S„]^^n^fef??hlKoS" 11"!\±t™**^tlV fril jn ™d „™iSt hi J5 to aSS fj SdiS «£num th_?_S effi ■ |or me die ala. ttention that she could , .i-L-.ii.xi-It was m the city that Elizabeth May Stewart fell for-the # tempta-. t,on the many pretty things her heart yearned for hel.d ?oul? from the shop counters. she went into Rendell's, m Ka- , .rangahape Road, *to feast her eyes on all the beautiful things that the elze of the family purse put far beyond her reach. ./ No one was looking for a moment, and—prompted by a sudden impulse— . she slipped first Twoollen costume and then a pair' of.'kiddies' rompers into her ba&'rhe dress would kee P her'warm during.the' coming winter, she thought, and .the, /ompers were Just what.one ?t the wee mites at home was want- ' . rtrallfol, flnw„ tnrtm to^°"V^^SLlW^^ «W? ■** ?aS w P * A smaU pair, of, shoes caught her, eye. The very thingi for .another member of her family, she thought, and the shoes surreptitiously vanished from the table on which they had been lying. In Milne and Choyce's a little while later her eyes feasted on a more bewildering display than ever . She was reckless now. She had only too few skirts, m her scanty wardrobe, TEARS IN THE DOCK : ———— '„ .. — Oiie of ■ her children was. with her. Mummle's distressed look was too much for his little heart. He took one of the skirts off the stand She hadn't the heart to'.put'it back and nitothe bag it went, atong with the shoes, the costume and the rompers. ; Elizabeth Stewart, who is a frail woman of 33, hid her weeping eyes from the grim gaze of the men around her when she appeared ln the Auckland Police Court last week on three charges of slioplifting^: ;a chair was brought and the woman^at; down. Now and then aj, art.ally.rt.fled sob couia De neara. : : Lawyer.Singer' put up a strong plea for leniency. He stressed the fact that her condition might possibly have accounted for her action. Tho Tnnp-i«»trnto rpfn«;pfl rnunspl's reflSTffisVSTaT 4 so^ *£?I^£^ slnd her'to t»r?S*: he saW to send her to prison, he said, . Chief Detective Cummings mentioned the family's poor circumstances and that there were .three Un^ hndren-- ' + +v ' : -''" The^ S.M. responded to the plea for leniency and Imposed a fine of £.3,---ordering ;the stolen goods to be returned to their respective owners.