GIRL SEEKS COMPENSATION.
PETITION TO THE HOUSE. WRONGFUL "IMPRISONMENT ALLEGED. . (By Telegraph.—Special to Standard.) WELLINGTON. Nov. 30. Having been released from Mount Eden prison early this month on a writ of habeas corpus, a 19-year-old girl, Annie Lillian Matheson, has petitioned the House of Representatives for £IOSO compensation for wrongful imprisonment and asked that her name be expunged from tho criminal records of New Zealand. In her petition—a lengthy document recapitulating the details of the Court proceedings at Auckland on November 4—she describes how she was wrongfully imprisoned on two occasions and convicted by the Children s Court at Auckland on two occasions in her absence without being given an opportunity to seek legal assistance or call evidence in rebuttal of the charges. The petition will be investigated by the Public Petitions Committee.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 312, 30 November 1933, Page 6
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133GIRL SEEKS COMPENSATION. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 312, 30 November 1933, Page 6
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