SOLD HER FURNITURE

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2338, 7 January 1926, Page 5

SOLD HER FURNITURE

WITH A BILL ATTACHED. WOMAN ADMITTED TO PROBATION. At a sitting of the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, a woman described na a domestic, of no fixed address, appeared before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., ic answer a charge that on or about August 2O', 1925, at Palmerston North she had, with intent to defraud, falsely stated that certain household furniture was her own property, and not encumbered and had thereby obtained the sum of £2O. Accused pleaded guilty and elected to bo dealt with summarily. In reviewing the circumstances of the case. Detective-Sergeant Qulrko, stated that it was attended with a certain degree of sadness and misfortune. Accused was a married woman with six children and was living apart from her husband. Being pressed for money, she had raised the sum of £2O under a bill of sale over the furniture, which was already encumbered. She was arrested in Walroa and had been in custody since the beginning of the year. This was tho first time that accused had appeared before the Court and she had stated that she would be prepared to refund the money within six months. He asked that the accused’s name bo suppressed. Tho Magistrate, in convicting and admitting accused to probation for twelve months, stated that probably the husband had driven her to commit the action and he made an order forbidding the publication of her name. She was also ordered to refund the money within six months.