DESPERATE ACT
GIRL FUGITIVE FROM POLICE BADLY FROST-BITTEN Press Association DUNEDIN, Today. Spending five nights among the lupins at Ocean Beach during midwinter without food was the desperate expedient adopted by a 19-year-old girl, to avoid being charged with the theft of sevenpence. This impetuous act had serious consequences for the girl, who was badly frost-bitten, and subsequently lost three toes, the senior-sergeant told the magistrate this morning, when the girl was charged with theft. She was found stealing sevenpence from the poor-box of a church, and when the police went to her home she bolted, and remained in the lupins until found by the police, and sent to hospital. The case was adjourned for 12 months.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 867, 10 January 1930, Page 1
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117DESPERATE ACT Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 867, 10 January 1930, Page 1
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