AN UNUSUAL CHARGE.
MOTHER INFORMANT AGAINST DAUGHTER. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. At the Magistrate's Court this morning, before Mr S. E. McArthy, S.M., Mary Corline Pointon was charged, on the information of her mother, with being an idle and disorderly person. After hearing the evidence of complainant and her son, his worship dismissed the information, remarking it was a most unusual charge for a mother to make asainst her own daughter. It had been proved that the girl had means of support, and was not a vagrant in any sense of the-term. Costs, totalling £7 5s were alldwed against the mother, ineluding a return train fare to Oamaru, where the girl was working when arrested on Wednesday last.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 May 1919, Page 4
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120AN UNUSUAL CHARGE. Taranaki Daily News, 28 May 1919, Page 4
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