Accused Woman Seeks Entry to Mental Home
CLAIMS SHE RECENTLY CAME FROM AUSTRALIA. ■T plead not guilty. All I ask your IVorship is to send me to a mental home. I am a very sick woman.” This plea was made to Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Palmerston. North Court yesterday by Alice Sharp, a domestic with six aliases, and of no fixed abode, who appeared before him charged with being an idle and disorderly person, with insufficient visible support. Constable Matthew told tho Court that the previous day accused had come into the police station and claimed that she had just escaped from an Australian mental home. Questioned as to her mode of living, sho indicated that she had never worked in her life. Invited to ask the witness questions, the accused could only repeat her request for entry to a home. * “In tho meantime I think we must send you to prison for a month,” said tho S.M., inspecting accused's lists of previous convictions. It appears to be doubtful if you were ever in Australia.”
“I have been in and out of police hands for the past 17 years,” was the reply.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 84, 10 April 1935, Page 3
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