NEW ZEALAND NURSE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 133, 8 June 1925, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NURSE.

From government house.

PLEADS GUILTY TO THEFT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDXEY, June 4. Kathleen Smith, 22, a nurse, stated by the police to have been employed recently at Government House, Xew Zealand, pleaded guilty at tho Sydney Sessions on Tuesday to a charge of having stolen two diamond rings, valued at £2(10, the property of Helen Byrne. She was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, but was released as a first offender. Mrs. Byrne who is the wife of Dr. Kevin Byrne of Lakemba on the South Coast line, was on a visit to her mother's house in the city, when site missed the rings. She informed the police, and Smith, who was employed by Mrs. Byrne as a nurse, was interviewed by tliem. Smith admitted that she had taken the rings and had planted them in the garden. She added: "I felt as though I wanted to wear them. I did not try to wear them or dispose of them. I was in town to-day, and I wanted to put them back." Passing sentence, the Judge said that Smith had evidently been overcome by a sudden temptation. She bad told the police where the rings were hidden, and they had been recovered.