A BREACH OF PROBATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1926, Page 9

A BREACH OF PROBATION.

WOMAN WHO GAVE TROUBLE. SENT TO GAOL FOR A MONTH. "THINKS SHE IS CLEVER." "She thinks that she is a clever woman and that we are a lot of stupid fools," said Senior Detective Hammond in referring to Myra Webste r (2S), who appeared at the Police Court this morning on a charge of having failed to comply with the terms and conditions of her release, on probation. Mr. Singer, who ad|fered for accused, thought that she waWrot quite normal. She had apparently failed to report herself to the Probation Officer at Christchurch owing to ill health. Major Gordon, the Probation Officer at Auckland, said that Webster took no notice of the order of the court and treated probation as a joke. Then Senior Detective Hammond had something to say. Accused had been twice escorted up from Cliristchurch. She had been admitted to five years' probation at Auckland and bad failed to make one penny of restitution of £35. The police could not do anything with accused. She had made out that she was ill and got doctor's certificates to that effect, but she was quite all right, and tripped about the country from place to place. Mr. Hunt: I see she has been to several doctors in Cliristchurch. Mr. Hammond: That is so. She would go to one doctor, and when he would find her out she would visit another one. Mr. Singer then produced a letter written by accused's brother in Wellington, in which he offered to take care of her. Accused now wished to go to her brother's place. Mr. Hunt: Yes. but what will his wife have to say to that? Mr. Singer: Oh. he appears to be the boss. Mr. Hunt: Well. Major, you say you cannot do anything with this woman? Major Gordon: No, sir, she takes no notice of anything. Mr. Hunt: Very well, she is sentenced to one month's imprisonment. A woman must obey the law as well as a man. Tf it had been a man, I would have given him three months.