THEFT AND FRAUD
Corrective Training For Woman
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 6. Nellie Mavis Booker, aged 26, who accordins’ to evidence in the Magistrate’s Court recently called herself “Lieutenant-Colonel E Levectio,” obtained petrol by saying she would pay for it after she had picked up a brigadier, and failed to return, had a love of histrionics. said her counsel (Mr D. J. Riddiford) in the Magistrate’s Court today. Booker was appearing for sentence on a charge of obtaining credit by fraud and on a further charge of the theft of a diamond
ring. On each charge Mr J. B. Thomson, S.M., convicted and sentenced her to corrective training (one to three years’ gaol). Mr Riddiford said that Booker’s case was most unfortunate. He submitted her love of histrionics and the desire for a more exciting life than the one she was already leading were major factors in the commission of the offences.
The Magistrate said it was obvious from the probation officer’s report and from the psychiatrist’s report that the period of reformation and guidance must be a long one.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28888, 7 May 1959, Page 10
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