AN UNFORTUNATE CASE.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 15 February 1917, Page 5

AN UNFORTUNATE CASE.

A pathetic little group appeared in the Magistrate ’s Court, Wellington, on Monday. The central figure was a woman, who bore in her arms a tiny infant, and was accompanied by her husband who is blind. She was charged with stealing £5, the property of a person who employed her to clean out certain premises. She pleaded guilty at the time of committing the offence. Inspector Hendrey stated the woman had a boy seven or eight years of age lying in hospital dangerously ill, and in addition was just about to give birth to another child. Her condition was not known when the information was laid. . . “I should like to submit that this is a case where leniency should be shown, said the accused’s husband in court. His Worship agreed that it was such a case, and ordered the woman to come up for sentence when called upon. He further ordered her to pay the informant the sum of three shillings, this being the only part of the stolen money that had not boon returned.