CLOTHES LINE RAIDED.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 85, 11 April 1927, Page 9

CLOTHES LINE RAIDED.

MAORI WOMAN ADMITS THEFT COMMITTED IN EARLY HOURS. OWNERS NOT YET FOUND. (By Tclcgra ph. —Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON", this day. Half a van Kid uf clothing purloined: from clothe* linos in tli.- vi.-inity ml. Wellington Terrace awai:» its owners :it j the Central I'nlice- Station. The per-j' j.otralMi- nf tin- thefts. Martlia Tainui.;, uged :.-2 yea i>. appeared before Mr.ji Salmon. S.M.. to-day, and pleaded guilty j I to six charges of stealing rMhing at tl7 l.">/. ji The chief detect i\e said the thefts j wore committed in th' , rarly hours. A- ; a result of complaint s. a watch was -■■( and accused was found about the backyard. No owners could b>. found mr the 'clothing at tho station. It had apparently been stolen in small quail- ' Accused, who has a Ion? lUt ofi previous conviction-. :!'■• in all, said Mie was not the originator of the offences, although she was pleading guilty. Sao; bad been drinking, but would take out an order against herself, and mend in the future. , . , . Mr. Salmon: Your list dates back to ISSS when you were convicted for housebreaking. "That was followed by numerous charges of false pretences The only course is to sentence you to n long term of reformative detention. Two years' reformative detention w.is the sentence.