STRANGE REQUEST
WOMAN PRISONER
"UNHAPPY OUTSIDE GAOL"
(P.A.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
"I ask you to put me back. Prison is the only thing I wish," said a Maori, Lucy Theresa Abraham, aged 22, in admitting two charges of housebreaking at Kaikohe when she came up for sentence before Mr. Justice Fair in the Supreme. Court. The Judge asked a Native interpreter to speak: to the prisoner, and he said she really did desire to go to gaol, as- she was unhappy outside.
The Judge remarked that this accorded with what she had told the Magistrate: that she had got into the habit of stealing and could not refrain when free. Her record showed that she was free for a week only, after two years' reformative detention. She would be sentenced to nine months' hard labour on each of two charges, the terms to be cumulative.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 3, 3 July 1941, Page 11
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145STRANGE REQUEST Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 3, 3 July 1941, Page 11
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