WOMAN PLACED ON PROBATION FOR STEALING

Evening Star, Issue 26153, 15 July 1947, Page 10

WOMAN PLACED ON PROBATION FOR STEALING

“ I took it for a reason. I don’t intend to disclose why,” Edna Joan Simms, a 31-year-old domestic told Mr J. D. Willis, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday morning. She was charged with stealing a woman’s pullover, valued at £l, on July 11. Chief-detective T. Y. Hall said that the complainant had .missed' the pullover from the feunge of the Terminus Hotel. Simms was a married woman, separated from her husband, and was apparently of the vagrant type. She had-been living with a man of criminal tendencies, mid was weak mentally. She was placed on probation for two years, a condition being that she submit to such medical treatment as deemed necessary by the probation officer. IMPRISONMENT IMPOSED. One month’s imprisonment with hard labour was imposed on John Henry Ferguson, a 21-year-old truck driver, for indecently exposing himself before a number of secondary school girls on the Oval last Saturday. He was represented by Mr J. G. Warrington. The customary penalty of a month’s imprisonment was also imposed on Thomas Riley, a seaman, charged with deserting from the s.s. Pakeha at Lyttelton on December 6. He pleaded' guilty.