SOCIAL BEAUTY'S THEFT
PLEA OF INSANITY FAILS ONE LAW FOR ALL CLASSES. A WOMAN SENT TO PRISON. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Caprr.cht. London, Nov. 17. “There must not be any suggestion of one law for the rich and another for the poor in this country,” commented the Judge, in sentencing Mrs. Lesly Gardiner, a prominent society beauty, who married last year, to six months’ imprisonment on a charge of stealing dressing cases. Medical witnesses described her as having a morbid desire to possess the property of others, or a form of mental insanity, which the Judge said he did not understand. It was revealed that she was previously convicted in 1914. The Judge declared: “I shall treat her just as I should the poorest woman in the land. Mental insanity means nothing to this court; it is common, vulgar stealing.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1926, Page 9
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