INDIAN’S LOST RUG

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 785, 4 October 1929, Page 1

INDIAN’S LOST RUG

THEFT CHARGE AGAINST WOMAN FAILS LESSON IN PAWNING A charge of stealing an Indian's rug, preferred against Martha Constance Daisy King at the Police Court this morning was dismissed. King admitted that she had pawned the rug, but urged that she had done it for another woman who had asked to bo shown how to pawn things. “I don’t believe the story, but I'll her the benefit of the doubt,” remarked Mr. F l . K. l-lunt. S.M., dismissng tlie charge. King, described as a lomestic, aged 42, was charged with stealing a rug valued at «£ 2 5s from Morar Harry on October 1. She pleaded not guilty. A neighbour of Harry's said that she iad seen accused and another woman approach tho house the day the rug bad apparently disappeared. Accused’s companion had scrambled through the window with the aid of a box and let accused in at the door. When the women came out they had a parcel with them. According to Constable Jones, accused had admitted pawning the rug find had been identified by the pawnbroker. Accused’s explanation was that the woman she had accompanied to Harry’s house had given her to understand that the rug belonged to her. ‘She asked me to show her how to pawn it. so I did,” added King.