RECEIVING CASE

Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1940, Page 8

RECEIVING CASE

MARRIED WOMAN FINED £lO. v {■ HAMILTON, March 18. Charges of receiving a sovereign and a half sovereign from a schoolboy, knowing them to have been dishonesty obtained, were preferred against a married woman, Lucy Ja'i|e Cpley, ol Hamilton, before Mr S. L.; Paterson, S:M., in the Hamilton Police Court' to-day. Mr. F. C. Henry appeared for accused.

( “The case arises from a matter which came before the Children’s Court in which a number of boys appeared for breaking ''-‘iffiSiir’-'' a' house in Victoria Thompsdiii’ !? AeciHved^Vtfthe coins Sf^jh £e dnd^6.f'%he s ibdys and altKohgifl'Mj'e rilay rtot'have' known tliey were stdleri, she 'must have, had a guilty knowledge of the circumstances surrounding them.” The sovereign had been purchased for 4s 6d and the half-sovereign for ss. continued "Mr Thompson, and this gross under-value suggested’ that accused had guilty knowledge of the m'eans by which the boy hacp,;r<eceive.d tliem. ••• • i,■ ■ •

In evidence, accused said the boy had given her the coins for her.'collection. The boy had not wanted to take any mbney for them, but she did not like to accept them without making a payment. She had never made any secret about having the coins 5 and the boy had mentioned the fact that lie had giVen them to her in front of other people. \ ■ ■ ,>>v • The magistrate, in imposing a. fine of £5 on each’ charge, said he wag quite satisfied accused knew Hlie coins wore obtained dishonestly. She was guilty of;a' particularly despicable offence. An Application for the suppression of the name was refused. s