FOR EXCITEMENT

NZ Truth, Issue 1205, 3 January 1929, Page 5

FOR EXCITEMENT

Flappers Flip Flap On Way o Itmaru

"FOR MY BAB TS SAKE " (Prom "N.Z. Truth's" Timaru Representative). Hilda and a companion came all the way from Invercargill to Timaru by taxi to join the revellers on the sunshine* beach and the gay cabaret at the Christmas carnival last week. But instead of wearing a festival hat they earned the badge of shame.

HILDA, who is twenty-four and single, was registered as Illingwbrth. She was not fussy about her status or. her name :either for that matter. Dunedin. acquaintances, who latterly became so unsociable as to inform the police that Hilda's taking ways were becoming more 'than they could bear, know her as Mrs. McAliey. Hilda did : not , hlce.. the . .way people were talking about her m Dunedin so she moved to Invercargill. ... There she made a companion of Elizabeth Perrin, a sweet young thing of twenty-two and many possibilities. Girls crave excitement. Hilda and Elizabeth were prepared to go almost any length ..to find it. Caroline ; Bay seemed a likely place. Their minds made up, Hilda and Elizabeth, smiling; sweetly, .on C. Friberg, a taxi man, blithely asked him to drive them to Timaru. Friberg^ wound her up on the trip, but the noise of his engine was nothing to the noise he made -when lie found that the sweet smile was all hi.% fares were prepared to give, him m return. lilingwbrth and Perrir. i. were charged with obtaining credit by." fraud, namely, taxi hire from Invercargill to Timaru from C. Friberg, to the value "of £14. Both pleaded guilty. >7 She was charged with .that ... on October 15, at Dunedin; , -by falsely representing that she was Mrs. McAliey, snp obtained from William Watson .£3 \vith

intent to defraud. Sue wus further charged with that, on December 1, at Dunedin, by falsely representing herself as Mrs. 'Smith, she obtained from James Todd £2 with intent to defraud. • . And further by falsely representing herself as Mrs. G. Anderson, of 62 Cargill Street, Dunedin, she obtained from Albert Joseph Cope, one sac suit and one pair of men's trousers to the value of £4 Is. 6d., with intent to defraud. ' Illingworth put up a half-hearted bluff when asked how she pleaded, informing the court that she had not had a chance to speak to anyone. When further questioned she wavered and amidst a torrent of tears said, "I didn't do these things for myself, but for my baby's sake." Senior-sergeant T. Gibson, who conducted the prosecution, said that the accused had represented themselves lo the taxi-driver as the Misses Johnston. Perrin. stated that they had told the taxi-driver that they would get the money if he waited, but he did not give them a chance. C. Pv. Orr Walker, the S.M., said that he was very reluctant to send young women to prison on their first appearance m court. Perrin would be piaccd on probation foj* twelve months, a special condition being that she -pay her share of the taxi fare. Illingworth would receive two years' probation. ■ - i