ABUSED PROBATION
DOMESTIC'S LONG LIST '■You have been given a chance on probation, but you have abused it," said Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day, to Muriel Olive Forbes Reid, alias Goodwin, a domestic, aged 31. Reid was charged with failing to comply with the terms o£ her release from probation, and with being an idle and disorderly person. Chief -Detective Ward said that the accused had a list of previpus convictions. She was convicted in 1925 and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon, for false pretences at Masterton. In Auckland in 1926 she had been admitted to probation for five years on charges of theft, false pretences, and obtaining credit by fraud, while on 30th July last year she had been sentenced to two months' imprisonment for a breach of her probation. She had been borrowing money and not paying her way. The accused was convicted on tho first charge, and sentenced to twelve months' reformative detention for being idle and disorderly.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 10
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170ABUSED PROBATION Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 10
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