SOCIETY THIEF
SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT JUDGE’S SCATHING COMMENT. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 17. . (Received November 18, at 9.30 a.in.) " There must not be any suggestion of one law for the rich and another for the poor in this country,” commented the judge, in sentencing Mrs Lesly Gardiner, a prominent society beauty, who was married last year, to six months’ imprisonment on a charge of stealing dressing oases. Medical witnesses described her as having a morbid desire to possess the property of others, or, in other words, it was a form of mental insanity, which the judge said ho did not understand. It was revealed that she was previously convicted in 1914. The judge declared : “ I shall treat her just as 1 should the poorest woman in the land. Mental insanity means nothing to this ccurt. It was common, vulgar stealing.” •
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Evening Star, Issue 19409, 18 November 1926, Page 5
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