STOLE FOR HER MOTHER.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 28 December 1925, Page 8

STOLE FOR HER MOTHER.

A SAD CHRISTMAS STORY. She was only a young girl, somewhere about twenty, and the thought of a mother who w'as very ill not having a Christmas present made her suddenly steal. She was observed doing so, however, and arrest immediately followed. Subsequently the' girl appeared before Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Wellington Magistrate's Court on Wednesday. “This case is a very sad .one, your Worship," commenced Sub-Inspector Ivemp, who prosecuted. “The accused has never been in court before, and is a hard-working, respectable - girl, who is very attached to an aged mother. She receives £2 a .week as wages, out of which she gives 35s for the support of the home. With the rest she pays her fare to work and gets a little thing or two for herself occasionally. The trouble in this case was that her mother was very ill and there was no monejr with which to buy her a present. The girl wanted badly to give her fond parent something, so she took a couple of little dishes from a shop valued at a few shillings. One of the salesmen, however, saw the movement, and gave her over 1o the police. What I have said, your Worship, is true, and it strikes me as being very sad. She is a really good girl, and had it not been for the fact that her mother had no present coming she would not acted as she did. She gave way to sudden temptation, but now she is very sorry for what has happened, and 1 am sure has suffered greatly as the result of being in court." The accused was convicted and discharged, the Magistrate remarking that under the circumstances he would order the suppression of her name.