THEFT FOR HUNGRY BABY

Evening Star, Issue 21316, 21 January 1933, Page 9

THEFT FOR HUNGRY BABY

<► MOTHER STEALS MILK A mother of seven children who went nut and stole a quart bottle of milk after listening all night to her baby crying for food which she had no money to buy was bound over at Marylebone, London, a few weeks ago. A pitiful story was told when Mrs Jessie Dobson, aged thirty-eight, pleaded guilty to the theft. A detective said she lived with her husband and seven children, aged seventeen, fifteen, twelve, ten, eight, four, and eight months, in two rooms. The husband was out of work, and the family’s total income was 24s a week, earned by one son. Ten shillings went in rent, and the family had been existing on the remaining 14s. The mother was tuberculous and unable to feed the baby, and it was only after she had listened all night to the hungry cry of the little one that she became desperate. Mr Bmgley, the magistrate, said_ that the woman looked very ill, and had indeed suffered a great temptation. He placed her under tho care of the missionary.