"MOST UNSATISFACTORY"

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 74, 28 March 1931, Page 6

"MOST UNSATISFACTORY"

Hazel Patricia. 8011, ;i waitress, aged 22, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court to-day to two charges of theft of money totalling £2 2s Od, the property of ■ Edmund Kay. She was sentenced to -two years' Borstal detention by Mr. T. B. M'Neil. 6.M. Sub-Inspector Ward said that the accused had been staying with Mr. and Mrs. Kay for about five months prior to tlie end of January last,' On 3rd January she had been given £2 by Mrs. Kay to pay the house'rent, but although she said she had paid the rent, she did not produce a receipt, and put the complainant off with various excuses. On 20th January the accused was given 2s Od to buy some medicine, but did not come back to the house. When she was seen -some time later the accused said that as she was "hard up she had used the 2s Gd-for herselt, and had "one over to Day' Bay, where'she had lost tho £2. On her arrest yesterday, however, she admitted that she had converted the £2 to her own use. She had been unemployed for six months. rihe complainants said that when she was living with them the accused frequently kept late hours, coming in in the early hours, of the morning and sometimes under the influence of liquor; She required treatment, and her conduct for the past six months had been most unsatisfactory. Her 'mother was dead and her father, she said, was somewhere in the country. In 1027 the accused had been'admitted to probation for theft. . , . Mr. T. B. M'Noil, S.M.: "I think in her own interests the best thing I can do is to sentence her to Borstal, detention.''