STOLE FOR HUSBAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 703, 1 July 1929, Page 13

STOLE FOR HUSBAND

BRIDE’S CRIME TO PAY HIS DEBTS / “MOMENT OF FOLLY” “In a moment of folly she decided, without this man’s (her husband’s) knowledge, to take moneys and pay off the debts he owed.” This statement was made by Mr. Barnett Janner, a Cardiff solicitor, at Monmouth, a few weeks ago, on behalf of Mrs. Edith Morris, a young bride, who was sent to prison for two months in the second division. Mrs. Morris, whose address was given as Penford Street, Myattts Park, Camberwell, London, and who before her recent marriage was Miss Edith Florence Johnston, employed as a finance clerk by the Monmouth Town Council, -was charged with embezzling amounts of £27 10s., £3 Bs. and £7 9s. 7d. and falsifying the accounts of the council.

The total defalcations were put In at £l5O. Accused recently left the employ of the council when she got married. Mr. Janner said she had been employed by the council for nine years, and was trusted by all who knew her. She took the money because, when she became engaged to her present husband, an engineer, he, in his foolishness, had entered into gambling transactions.

She knew he owed a considerable amount of money to bookmakers and others, and, in a moment of folly, she decided, without this man's knowledge, to take moneys and pay off the debts he owed.

She had been an innocent girl in matters of the world. She thought this stigma on the man, when he became her husband, would be one she would be unable to bear.