SWALLOWED A RING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 5 January 1928, Page 7

SWALLOWED A RING.

FEMALE JEWEL THIEF. SENTENCE AT WELLINGTON. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 5. Alice Myra Mann, a dressmaker, aged 31 years, pleaded guilty to-day to the theft of a ring valued at £SO, the property of Clarke and Morris, jewellers; also"with tlie theft of two rings valued at £4O, the property of Dorothy Innes. The story of the detectiveis was that accused came from Australia and stayed at a place iu the Terrace, where a woman missod two rings, but no trace could bo found of them. Nothing further was heard until last Friday afternoon, when accused visited a jewellery shop and asked to be shown a tray of rings. When she i£Tt, a ring worth £5 was found to have been substituted for one valued at £SO. Accused was followed and questioned and then taken to' the police station, where she was searched without result, but when her correct address had been ascertained her room was searched, and one of the rings missing from the place in the Terrace was found. This led to accused confessing that she had swallowed the £SO ring."-She was sent to hospital, and one ring was recovered. She had previously been in trouble in Australia. Mr Salmon, S.M., took the attitude that the woman was a professional thief, and he convicted her and ordered her to nay medical expenses £9 Is on the first charge, in default a month’s imprisonment, and on thp second charge she wa s sentenced to three months’ gaol-