STOLE A RING

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 105, 28 January 1931, Page 10

STOLE A RING

Domestic Servant’s Theft

“She was employed in domestic setvice at Titahi Bay, where she made the acquaintance of the complainant; later she went into the complainant s tent and stole the ring,” said Sub-Inspector Lopdell in the Police Court yesterday in referring to Ethel S. Mohcr, aged 22, who pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a -ring valued at £lO, the property of Muriel James. She was admitted to probation. . , , Accused had gone into town, and baa pawned the ring, 'said the sub-inspector. She was a married woman with three children who were boarding out in Christchurch. The accused had been before the court in Christchurch on October 4, 1929, on a charge of theft, when she was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon any time within one year. “If I am given another chance I will prove I can go straight,” said the accused when asked by the magistrate if she had anything to say. , The magistrate remarked that the woman probation officer recommended two years’ probation. He proposed to adopt that course, and he would order restitution to be made at such time as the woman probation officer should fix.

Escaped Prisoner

On a charge of escaping from custody Francis Charles Gorney was remanded to appear at Auckland on January 29. A charge of being an incorrigible rogue was withdrawn.