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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7, 9 January 1905, Page 5

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FOUKTEKN" TEAKS IN PRISOX. Norah Williams, an Auckland woman who was charged in the Police Court today with attempting to steal from the person of Arthur Bailey on Saturday. was said by the police to served 14 years 11 month? and 11 days imprisonment during her career. She recently completed a twelve months' sentence, 'which was just because we had ft bit of a lark over some photos." sho explained confidently to Mr McCarthy, and in tiie , present instance it was a case of her helping a drunken man. "I found him lying on the broad of his back, helpless. and tfiok him to the side of the road. I just put my hands into his pockets to see if he had oab fare, so that he rould gr> home, and T took nothing," vras her explanation. Constable Illingworvh made a more detailed explanation. H« *aid the aroused had stuck the man againsj a tenee in ; aa<3 was busily gesng i hto pockets when he. came on ;ih« aeeiie- Hβ h*i' hand go Into !three of the pwsk-ets. Mrs William? then notin-.l him. and yah away. "N T ever van away,' preaiptly retorted i the accused. "He was a heavy man, land as I was peFapiring through lifting him 1 went off to get a lemenade." : The spepfcaters laughed, and the Stteenjtnary tpld Mrs WilHaws that he afraid she tried te steal from Bafley. He senteiu-.vid her te tweive months' iropriionment.