ELEMENT OF DOUBT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 94, 22 April 1931, Page 16

ELEMENT OF DOUBT

THEFT CHARGE FAILS

«<I think there is an clement of doubt as to whether a theft was committed," saia Mr. E. Page, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court yesterday m dismissing a ease against Mrs. Edith Myra Randell, a domestic, who was charged with stealing a rug, valued at £7 10s, from Mrs. Mary O'Donoghue. Mrs. Mary Sellars, a daughter of Mrs. O'Donoghue, said that on 15th ■April she was at her mother's house, fitness was upstairs with Bowejjuerts 'ond her mother was with Mrs. Bandell downstaii-s. Her mother called hei down and told her that Mrs. Randell had taken the rug off her bed, and had left the house. Witness then went to Mrs Eandell's house ana found her in tod with the missing rug covering her. ' Constable Sullivan, said that ho went to Mrs. Randell's house and. saw the me on her bed. She was in a drunken condition and aid not appear to know what she was doing. "I must have been drunk or I would not have gone to the house," said the accused when asked by the Magistrate, whether she had anything to say. After reading a letter written, by Mrs. Randell, who was described by Sub-Inspector Lopdcll as an illiterate woman,- Mr. Page dismissed the case.