FALSE PRETENCES

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1933, Page 9

FALSE PRETENCES

ASKING FOR TRAIN FARES

A charge of false pretences was mad< against Doris Pearl Jensen, a young mar* ried woman, in the Lower Hutt Court tliid morning. Mr. J. S. Barton was on th« bench, and' fined the defendant, who pleaded guilty, £2, with a promise that if she came before the Court again sha would be sentenced to a fairly long term! of reformative detention. Sergeant J. W. McHolrn said the act cused had a habit of going round people* places and stating she had lost her purse^ and wanted train fare. She took her two* children with her, and by this means gained a certain amount of sympathy. Shq* always adopted the same tactics; if sli« was at Wellington she wanted to gel* to Lower Hutt, and if at Lower Hutt shai 1 wanted to get to Wellington. There wem | two complaints about her on the day irt question, although there' was only on« charge. She had been on probation, finish* ing her last probation _on May 20, 1932* She did not drink, and,in other ways \va* quite all right. . i Mr. H. Taylor, who appeared for tliaj defendant, Baid his client had asked a inaiil named Vickery for 2s so she could gety to Wellington. There did not appear to baa any false pretences about the matter i»] this respect, although a plea of guilty;; had been entered, as she Jjad gone to We!^ lington to see her mother. As Sergeantt McHolm said,' she seemed to show real con*' trition. She had two children, the eldei* of whom was six years of age. He thoughS; the case was one. in which his client!, should be left free, as she had a fear:; that if she had her children taken outh of her care she would not be able to getf* them back again. Mr. Barton, in entering a conviction an* a J imposing a fine of £2, said the defendant could expect a fairly lengthy period of re»j formative detention if she came before thog Court again, in which case her children^ would go to the care of the State, sow whether she kept them depended on her*]