A STRANGE GIRL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 50, 1 March 1922, Page 4

A STRANGE GIRL.

UNFIT TO BE AT t-Ayfig CHARGED WITH THEFT AND ARSON. (By Telegraph.—Press Assoebtko.) TTMARU, this dty. A domestic servant named a Alim Hunt, aged 18, pleaded guilty at tin Tenraka Court to charges of breaking entering and stealing goods, chiefly wearing apparel, of the value of £30, from the house of John Davey, fanner, of Rangitira Valley, in the absent* at the occupiers; also with a similar offence under similar circumstances tt the farmhouse of Mr. Frank Green is the same district, stealing goods valued £26, and further with setting fire to a dwelling, which was burned down with its contents valued at £1060 (insured for £500). The girl packed the stolen articles and sent them by poet to a sister ia Pleasant V&liey. The police suspicions were aroused by a. constable seeing parcels posted at a rural mail box, and, following these, he discovered articles reported to have been stolen from botk dwelling?. The girl, in a statement, said she did not know why she did sneh things, 'but always realised afterwards. A third theft from her employer ws dealt with summarily, and on other charges she was remanded to the Supreme Court with tail, Mr. Hosier, S.M-, saying that she was not fit to be at large.