"UNDESIRABLE WOMAN"
"An undesirable woman," was how Senior-Sergeant H. Butler referred to Maisie Pepper, alias Isabel Pepper, alias Mary Isabella Vercoe, aged 40, who denied a charge of vagran.cy in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, v Constable T. Smith and Coustable Reardon said that they had had the defendant under observation during tho past few months. She had been drinking in hotels in Taranaki and Tory, streets, and associating* with convicted people. Pepper did not agree with the senior-ser-geant description. of her. "I just want to be given a chance," she said from, the dock. "I can go straight." Remarking that she had received several warnings 'from the police, the Magistrate (Mr. .IS.' Page) sentenced Pepper to three months 'imprisonment. She left the dock weeping.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 120, 23 May 1930, Page 14
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