UNFORTUNATE CASE.
“FORCED TO STEAL.” POVERTY BRINGS ABOUT DISHONESTY. “This is an unfortunate case, in which the defendant has been forced to steal by straitened circumstances,” said Chief-Detective Kemp, when a young married woman whose name was suppressed, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence' when called upon at the Magisrate’s Court at Wellington by Mr C. R. Orr-Walker, S.M. The chief detective, in outlining the charge to w r hich the defendant pleaded guilty, said that she had frequently visited a friend’s house, and the latter had told her that if she were not in at any time she was to make a cup of tea for herself. The accused was shown where the key was kept. She had visited tho friend’s house and had stolen the money, which had been recovered. At first she stated that she had seen a man lurking about the premises when she visited there, but afterwards had made a clean breast of the matter.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 4 May 1925, Page 12
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163UNFORTUNATE CASE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 4 May 1925, Page 12
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