RAMA RAMA.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 255, 2 March 1917, Page 1

RAMA RAMA.

A TRUJED? RECALLED. Memories of the unsolved Rama Rama murder of some 18 months ago in which the victim was Mr. J. T. Perry were recalled last Friday when his widow Amelia Perry, aged 31, was charged before Mr. F V. Frazer S.M , in the Auckland Magistrates' Court with theft The circumstances of the case were that accused had stolen a gold bangle, value £3 10s, from the house of her aunt, Mrs Barrett, and had then pawned it. Later she had stolen a child's iress and a pair of lady's boots from an outhouse. No little iugenuity had been displayed by the accused in endeavouring to cover up her movements but she was arrested in a train jutt as she was starting to go south. Against definite and positive evi' dence of the pawnbroker and the dealer that Mrs Porry was thp woman who had pawned the brooch and sold ttie pawn ticket, and of two other people that she had been concerned in tho theft, she maintained a protestation of mistaken identity, which evuked the magistrate's comment " The most brazen women I have ever met," as well as the remark that she was also a daring thief. His Worship convicted the woman and sentenced her to three years reformative treatment, adding that if thero were any mental peculiarity requiring special treatment the Prisons Board could decide on the matter.