MAORI WOMAN'S THEFT.
Stating that he preferred to believe the complainant and the other witnesses for the prosecution, Mr. C. R. OrrWalker, S.M., in the Police Court thin morning, convicted Materia Brown, a Maori woman, aged 44, on a charge of stealing £15 belonging to Mate Mavsich, a Dalmation. Accused pleaded not guilty. Mavsich said he was walking through a lane off Victoria Street on the mornin;of May 0 on his way to his lodgings n Cook Street when lie was accosted by th< accused, who invited him into a houAccused, he said, started to "smoiv". with him. Ho pushed her away and. [after leaving tie house, f.mnd that thive I£s notes whHi ho had had in his trousers pocket had been stolen. Later the same day he saw the accused at tli corner of Hoh«on and Wclleslcy St reeland asked her for the ictiirn of the money. She told him she had s|»ent it. and when he .said he would go for the police 6he said, '"Co ahead." Witness followed her to a house in Baker Street. where she was arrested later. Brown was sentenced to one month's imprisonment* ,
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 112, 15 May 1939, Page 10
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190MAORI WOMAN'S THEFT. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 112, 15 May 1939, Page 10
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