A DOMESTIC'S LAPSE.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 June 1920, Page 5

A DOMESTIC'S LAPSE.

piAads guilty to theft. Kate Guest, domestic, of Hawera, ytm charged before Messrs C. O. Ekdabl ttdt S. W- 3. McNeill at the Hawera Magistrate's Court yesterday with having between Ooctber 3 and 6, at K»-' ttttfia, braking and entered the dwelling j of §eo(ge Blanford Bill, Bowan Read, KapongH. by day, and with having j stolen one Queen Anne electroplate tea* I ,iot, one electroplate sugar scuttle, two tugft basins, one silver spoon, one ail- j yer tonga, one gold brooch, qne electro- i plate butter dish and silver knife, on? ailver vase, one electroplate jam dish, hslftdozen' white-handled knives, halfAotOi white-handled stainless knives, half-dozen stainless dessert spoons, h&lftiMen iejsrt forks, nine teaspoons, one gol4 jfrannie chain, one black gun metal kliMt dock, one cut-glass snuff bottle, the property of G- B. Hill, of a total vata* of £29 2s 6d. Detective Nuttall stated that oft May ee> interviewed the accused and told feel that her father had made a statement to the police that she had adtoltted the theft of jewellery and silverware from Mr. Hill's house. Accused te|]jtd: "I don't'know what made me do it." She admitted going to the house in company with her brother _ George •n# entering by a window which bad been left open about two inches. She fak the articles from the sideboardjht accused pleaded guilty, and will be .brought before the Chief Justice at tho' Supreme Court at New Plymouth |h& fronting for sentence.