FOR HER BABY

NZ Truth, Issue 1189, 13 September 1928, Page 12

FOR HER BABY

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, '(FTom ,VN.Z;.: : Truth's" Christchurch ; ■'^.r.,;, : ;V..:.. ■..:. Rep.)- ; :;. „ ■,:.•.;.; : -■; ■'.-■ -. Penniless arid driven to distrac- , ;tron through continued poverty^ 'Vhduhde'y by creditors and ejected frbrrt her home by the bailiffs while her baby cried, from hunger, a ; . ; young married woman came, before •Magistrate Mosley at Christchurch :last Week to answer a charge of stealing £5 from her cousin. CHE ,1s twenty years of age and car-: ;;rled obvious signs of the privations she had suffered m her recent struggle ' fbr- existence. .'-<- '■'•■' ; Hers wM, a genuine case of hardship, but the ;law. says. that, ho matter- how ( . earnest the cause, dishonesty cannot be tolerated..-' -.< , : „ , . Instead of exploring the proper "avenues,; through, which she and her child' cbjiild be succoured, the unfortunate young woman resorted to thieving. > While visiting her? ( cousin,, she . -.•'•' stole a y £5, note and with "a portiorr , -of it ishe' paid; something off her ' outstanding rent, then bought food . . f of herself, -and her child. ,• .' ,'./; Thenjatte^ w,as/pteced m the hands . 'at .the police, ': but -when .the. cousin >■ learned jqf the girl's ' unfortunate cireum.stariC.e3 \he tasked that ./ the case be withdrawn,.' •' ■; ;.. ,';V-. ,'■■"'- ■': Bitter at heart with 'her unhappy lot/ the young ; woman showed no appardnt effect from the humiliating position m which she found herself. ■' /. .. ••. ; :\ , : »: '■)'.-,■' '_'.'.:■ •-'.:• Quietly she said: "Thank ypu," as Magistrate Mosley dismissed the inforpiation. and ordered lier name to be. . Bupprossci:.' ■ '■• '■'. ' :'. .'■■-."■ ; '