Young Girl Goes To Gaol

NZ Truth, Issue 1262, 6 February 1930, Page 7

Young Girl Goes To Gaol

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Dunedin Representative.) TEARS, sobs and a shuddering glance over her shoulder at the door * leading to the cells was the manner m which a young Dunedin girl, Audrey Jones, received a magistrate's sentence of six months' imprisonment with hard labor, when, at the City Police Court she was convicted of being a rogue and vagabond. Police evidence was to the effect that Jones had been frequenting the wharves and city hotels. Mr. R. J. Bartholomew, S.M., having entered a conviction, SeniorSergeant Quartermain said that the girl had twice previously been convicted on charges of being idle and disorderly. In August, 1924, she received 12 months' reformative detention m Dunedin, and m March, 1927, another 12 months m the Borstal. "This woman .was living m a pie-cart with a man, and was arrested on a charge of being idle and disorderly," said the senior-sergeant. "Later, she went to Wellington and was living with Chinese." Jones (from the dock) : I was not! I only went there once. Senior-Sergeant: You were arrested' m a Chinese den, at any rate< The magistrate, m passing sentence, said .that Jpnes had , been given opportunities to reform, but apparently had appreciated them. .