COMPLAINT VOICED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 269, 12 November 1937, Page 8

COMPLAINT VOICED.

YOUNG WOMAN THIEF. STOLE FROM BENEFACTOR. " GOT INTO BAD COMPANY." (By Teleprnph.—Own Correspondent.) MiW PLYMOUTH, this day. Admitting four charges of theft of small sums of money and also a breach of her probation order, Pearl Ann Davidson (23) told a story in the Police Court this morning in which she complained' of alleged unfair treatment by Constable Houston as probation officer at Xuhakn, and of not being given a fair chunce to go straight. Since coming to New Plymouth, slw% explained that she had written to Constable Houston, but apparently her second letter had not reached him. When it became known in New Plymouth that she was on probation she lost her job. The police said accused was befriended at a dance but stole money from her benefactor when the latter, thinking she looked lonely, took her home. Davidson was arrested as she was about to boacd a train for Auckland. I It was stated accused had been I placed on probation for taking £16 from a woman companion's handbag during a shopping excursion in Gisborne. She destroyed the purse and then accompanied her companion, who believed she liad lost it in a shop, on a futile hunt for it. There were several other complaints about accused. The young woman told the Court she was not "drifting," but had not had a fair chance. In answer to the magistrate she said she had got into bad company. The Magistrate: I think you have not understood the object of probation. Accused was sentenced to reformative treatment in a borstal institute for a period not exceeding two years.