Desperate Woman Driven to Crime
BROKEN FIGURE IN DOCK PITIFUL STORY TOLD BROKEN, sobbing woman, humiliation at a critical time, stood in the dock at the Police Court this morning. _Slie was Dorothy Hinemoa Weller, alias Polly Hanning. aged 24, who pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a silk vest valued at 24s 6d and a table-cloth valued at 2s lid from a city emporium yesterday. Sub-Inspector Lewin said that she went into the shop in Karangahape Road yesterday morning, took the goods and placed them in a bag. She had not been before the court for six years. “It’s a pitiful case,” said Mr. J. J. Sullivan, who appeared on the woman’s behalf. “In less than two months she will be a mother, and already she has a child aged 12 months to care for. The firm she was working for has dispensed with her services, and she-committed the theft in desperation.” Sub-Inspector Lewin: She is living apart from her husband. Mr. Sullivan: She is separated from him by an order of the Court. The Magistrate, Mr. McKean, remanded her till to-morrow for sentence.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 76, 21 June 1927, Page 9
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186Desperate Woman Driven to Crime Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 76, 21 June 1927, Page 9
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