A PAINFUL CASE.
BY TEJ.KRRAPH —VRESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH. July 13. A painful case was heard in the Magistrate's Court to-day, when a girl, twenty years of age, was charged with stealing a purse. She went into a shop and asked permission to use the' telephone. When leaving she stole the purse, with 30s in it, which was lying on a shelf near. In Court the girl sobbed violently. The chief detective said she was an arrant thief. A Sister of the Deaconesses' Home said she was not a bad girl, but had been led away by evil companions. The Magistrate said he did not want to send the girl to prison. When asked whether she would go to prison or to the Samaritan Home, the girl, between sobs, said she preferred gaol, and got three months' imprisonment accord inglv. Later on the girl was persuaded by the Sisters to go to the Samaritan Home for three month*. Judgment was altered accordingly.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9138, 14 July 1908, Page 5
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161A PAINFUL CASE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9138, 14 July 1908, Page 5
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