THEFT OF A RING

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 52, 2 March 1921, Page 8

THEFT OF A RING

A domestic servant, Mary Agnes M'Dowell, admitted, when sho was charged before Messrs. I. Salek and H. B. Bridge, J.P 'a, at the Magistrate's Court to-day that she had stolen a diamond ring from a house at Hataitai, where she was employed by Mr. and Mrs. B. K. Kelly. Tho ring had been kept in a jewel box, and the girl had removed it and sold it under an assumed name and address at a second-hand shop in Taranaki-street, kept by Mrs. Annie Phillips, for £2 10s. The ring, said Mr. Kelly, had been valued by him at £40, but he had been told that its true value at the present time was nearer £80. A daughter of the proprietress of thb second-hand shop said that when she accepted the ring she was not aware that the etones arere diamonds, otherwise she certainly would not have sold it to a customer, whom she did not know; for £3 56 a few days later. The police have so far. not beep able to trace the missing ring. M'Dowell was committed to the Supreme Court • for sentence, bail being fixed on the application of Mr. J. S. Hannah, for the defence, at £100, with like sureties.