OVER-ZEALOUS POLICEMAN
An over-zealous policeman placed the magistrates in Nottingham Juvenile Court in a difficult position by charging a little girl of 31 with the theft, of a purse containing £2 belonging to her oavii mother. * The parents, well-dressed people, indignantly- disclaimed any desire to prosecute their enild. The father explained that she had been under a specialist for sleepy sickness, and that i.u disease had left after effects. Inquiries addressed by the chairman of the Bench to the police officer as thow proceedings came to be instituted elicited me fact that he saiA- the child crying in tin' street ami that she eon tossed to having taken the money. H-_ then saw the mother, who said the money had been stolen. In reply to a further question the policeman admitted that the Avon! used was “missed" ami not “stolen." He also admitted that no complaint ol theft had been made to the police. Tne Bench dismissed the case.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 January 1926, Page 8
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159OVER-ZEALOUS POLICEMAN Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 January 1926, Page 8
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