DOMESTIC DUTIES.

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 July 1907, Page 4

DOMESTIC DUTIES.

TELEGRAMS.

[per press association.] DUNEDIN, This Day. At the Police Court to-day, Mary Prentice and Sarah Jackson, mother and daughter, were charged with theft of a gold ring, a gold-mounted pendant, three white shirts, a singlet, a travelling rug, two photographs, and 7s 6d in money, a total value of £4, from the dwelling of Herbert Jackson, of Riverton. Chief Detective Herbert said that the police in Dunedin knew nothing of the facts, and he asked that accused he remanded to appear at Riverton. Mr Hanlon, for accused, objected to a remand to Riverton. Defendants were mother and daughter, and the prosecutor was husband of the daughter. The younger woman had been subjected to great cruelty at the hands of the prosecutor. Some proceedings were taken in Invercargill, and ultimately she had to leave him altogether. The articles alleged to have been stolen (with the exception of the white shirts), were articles her husKn-M had given her while they wore friendly. She had two or three articles in her possession which she took with her when she left. This was a dispute between husband and wife, and the mother had nothing to do with it except that she went down and took her daughter away from a crnoniushand. Ho asked that a remand should he granted in Dunedin for eight days, that he might communicate with nrnreentor. The magistrate thought it would ho just as well to give every chance ef a. settlement. Tile case was remanded until the. 29th. Defendants were admitted to hail on sureties of £lO each and another of £lO in each case.