A SAD STORY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 163, 3 April 1908, Page 4

A SAD STORY.

(BY TEI.EGIUIUI—riiESS ASSOCIATION.) ■ : Auckland, April 1. 1 ■'A.' young/, woman, named. Hay , Cu'rtin appeared'. before Miylvettle/S.M.;', at tlu\" Police Court,-'• on ,';variouS..fcliarges ''oftheft.'/A pathetic story, was unfolded. /Accused- is an oriilian, and came out. as..an/iiiimigrarit to' take: a .position! as'. ladj':'help iiv'.iiii ,Aucklan(l family, ; a fellow .immigrant induced her on/arrival-,to : live ■ with liim' : "as'-" his '.wife.'. .Shortly - afterivards' . he^deser,ted' heiy/and'slio went to; Thames as- a: barmaid,' subsequently going to Napier. , Mr,' Singer, who appeared-for. .the' girl, maao an: appeal for .'her, to 'be, Handed over, to ; fridrids,,: who'.- were 'anxious -to ,look.-after her, .and where s'no would bo free'from, those i.wllo had-, ruiriecl 'her;' ' , v ; ■. Tho Magistrate: ," M'oiil'd to'.God I hadthe; power to: deal with tho men who have ruined- her: : ' -Ho' addetH-.ho would .decide, as to What should bo,done, with',tlio..girlperhaps it would be: best .to hand hor over, .to tho; I)poi ; of Hope, 'if room l could' bo .made to? her.' . • •- • • .* ~,

Auckland, April 2. Gtvmg. his 'reserved decision, in, tho caso ;of' May Xhirtm, the girl immigrant who had been abandoned'," by, a, mail; to . whom"; • bdcomo attached; and now stood charged with theft' of Jewellery,;' Mr. Kettle; S.M., said lie ! liad decided to give her. a chariee. tb reform on- friends, entering into,a they would without," fee or reward;.agree to maintain- the girl ■ for//six";months.,. 1 v ' ./•'