WOMAN'S STRANGE ACTS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 149, 20 December 1929, Page 13

WOMAN'S STRANGE ACTS

"I'll give her one more chance," said Mr. 1,. Page, S.M., when convicting and ordering Doris Pearl Jenson to comeup for sentence if called upon within three years in the Magistrate's Court to-day. Accused pleaded guilty to obtaining £1 from Philip H. Powell by falsely representing that she was a Mrs. Mills living at Stokes Valley, and that she had lost a pound note and the return half of her bus ticket. ' Chief Detective Lopdell said that the case presented considerable difficulty. The accused was .a married woman, twenty years old. In 1925 she had been charged with being a rogue and vagabond for begging in the- same way as she had now done. On this charge she •had been given twelve months in a Borstal institution. The accused was before the Court on 31st May last, on a series of charges for obtaining money in the same begging way. She was admitted to probation for three years. '.|lt sems to me," said the Chief Detective, "that the only way tho publio'can be protected from her is to give her a term of imprisonment or give full publicity to the case. She says that she cannot explain why she does these things. She knows it is wrong, and is sorry afterwards."