STOLE FROM RELATIVE

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 36, 6 November 1928, Page 7

STOLE FROM RELATIVE

BORSTAL SENTENCE FOR YOUNG WOMAN. “I’ve tried, God alone knows how I have tried,!” was the tearful remark of Phoebe Margaret Welch Ingram, aged 19, who appeared before Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with stealing a cushion cover and a pair of silk stockings valued at £2 ss. 6d. Chief-Detective/ Ward stated that some time ago accused met a relation in the street and was taken to the latter’s home. While there she stole the articles mentioned, the cushion cover being stolen because Ingram thought it was a piece of material. Accused, added Ward, had been, before the Court on two previous occasions on charges of theft and had been admitted to probation each time. Mr. J. Seott, counsel for accused, asked thafo she might be treated leniently and given another chance. The Magistrate remarked that accused had had six charges of ' theft against her in the past. He thought that it would be impossible to grant probation, and considered it _ necessary for accused to have some discipline in order td save her from herself. At this stage the girl burst into tears and told the Magistrate that she had done het best. She had come to Wellington to marry a man who had since turned her down. , , . , . Accused was ordered to be detained m a Borstal institute for a-period not exceeding six months. ,