ROBBED A MOTHER OF 19.
The sequel to a married woman's midnight meeting with a young man was described at Kingston, when Frank George Bush, 20. a munition worker, was charged with stealing a purse containing £n 15s from Mrs. Duedoth. Prosecutrix, who told the bench that she was the mother of nineteen children, staled that she had been to a riverside restaurant at Kingston, and after listening to the band she missed her last car home. Just before midnight she started to walk home, and on the way met accused. As she learnt that they were both going the same way, accused accompanied her to her house, and as he told her he was very thirsty she invited him inside to give him a drink, After a time she went to put a shilling in the gns meter, leaving her purse on the dresser. "I treated the boy like one of my own children," she added. After he hud gone, just after one ox-iock, she missed her purse. Bush, who pleaded guilty, was bound i over.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1919, Page 12
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177ROBBED A MOTHER OF 19. Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1919, Page 12
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