A DRUG ADDICT.
WOMAN'S BAD LIFE. GAOL FOR SIX MONTHS. MYRA WEBSTER SENTENCED. "I feel mucli better now. Give me this last chance of going into the country," pleaded Myra Webster, a young woman, Who was sentenced at tlie : 3?6lice ! Ooiirt this morning On charg'es <5f 'breach of probation at Ghristchurck and "false ! pretences at Auckland. • | l "Of course you 'feel better; you have been .in prison for a fortnight," s'riid Mr. ■ P. K. Hunt. "The reports I 'have had; ' about you are You " were l oh: probation several years ago, and you have deliberately broken every term and condition of your release. You have been living a scandalous and bad. life, and you are; addicted to drugs and also to drink. You were .given an oppor-; tunity of going : t0 Pak'atoa Island -for twelve months, but you refused to go. there." 'Webster was sentenced tb six'months'; ' imprisonment. ■ . j
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 224, 21 September 1929, Page 11
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149A DRUG ADDICT. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 224, 21 September 1929, Page 11
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