Giri Tells Judge-"You Should be Shot”
LIFTED SCREAMING FROM DOCK When a 20-year-old girl was sentenced by the Reading (England) Recorder, Mr St. John Mieklethwait, to three years at a Borstal institution, she cried: “You wicked old judge, you ought to be shot.” She was Hazel Dora Ainsworth, described as a cook, charged with obtaining 15s 3d by false pretences. Mr J. S. Smuts, defending, said the girl had served a period of six months* hard labour for a similar offence, and on. coming out of prison had obtained a post. She had ben blackmailed by a former fellow prisoner, and had since lost her job. Ainsworth, he added, was very anxious to marry next February a soldier now serving in Palestine. After the Recorder sentenced her, the girl was carried struggling and crying from the dock by two wardresses.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 370, 26 February 1937, Page 8
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140Giri Tells Judge-"You Should be Shot” Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 370, 26 February 1937, Page 8
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