SENT BACK TO PAKATOA
By simulating seizures when she was on Pakatoa Island, Josephine Anna Montby, aged 40, frightened the other inmates, with the result that when representations were made by the authorities there, her sentence of two years was remitted. Monthy was again in the box in the Magistrate's Court to-day, charged with drunkenness and a breach of her prohibition order. Sub-Inspector Lander said that ..this' was Monthy's .third. statutory: ofience of drunkenness and the eighth breach of her prohibition order. "I think she should be returned to the island," added the SubInspector. The Magistrate (Mr. E. Page, S.M.) ordered Monthy to be sent to Pakatoa Island for twelve months for the breach of her prohibition order.* On the charge of drunkenness she was convicted and discharged.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 118, 21 May 1928, Page 11
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128SENT BACK TO PAKATOA Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 118, 21 May 1928, Page 11
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