THEFT OF FLOWERS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 53, 11 September 1928, Page 4

THEFT OF FLOWERS

Spring daffodils and violets in a bucket outside a Chinaman's shop in Courtenay place on Saturday afternoon appealed to Josephine Ann Monthy, and she took several bunches without paying for them. Further on, she took a cauliflower outside another Chinese shop, but this time she %v_as caught by a. constable, who had been informed of the theft in Oourtenay place. Monthy, who has two aliases, denied in the Magistrate's Court yesterday having taken the flowers, but admitted having stolen the cauliflower. "This is the woman I sent to the island," said Sir. J. H. Salmon, S.M. Sub-Inspector Lander said that Monthy had 19 previous convictions. When in May last she was sent to Pakatoa Island the question arose as to her physical condition. She had been able to simulato fits when she got to tho island, with the result that he authorities had been approached, and the defendant had been discharged before the expiration of her sentence. On each charge Monthy was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, tho sentences ■to be concurrent.