INHERITED OVER £6000
GIRL NOW DESTITUTE. A girl who inherited between £6000 and £7000 when she was 21, land now, at the age of 30, has nothing ieft, was 'senlfceneed at Brighton, England, recently, to; three moriths' hard lahour for obtaining credit by fraud. A charge of theft was also taken into acoounit. Wlhen sentenced she cried: "Oh, sir, the cell is so terrible." The defendant was' Dorothy Evelyn Leighton, a native of Dulwieh. A deitective sadd that she was educated at Tonbridge High Sehool. Wh'en 21 "she inherited ibetween £6000 and £7000 from an uiicle. Owing to her extravagiance, however, her moaiey appeared all to have gone and she had heen compelled te seek employment, 'hut remained a short time only in each situation. For the last tWo months she had heen staying at various h'dtels land boardimghouses from which she absconded. Leighton .pleaded guilty and said she had no home and nowhere to sieep.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 672, 26 October 1933, Page 7
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156INHERITED OVER £6000 Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 672, 26 October 1933, Page 7
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