Stole Pearl Ring from Her Employer

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 123, 26 May 1937, Page 12

Stole Pearl Ring from Her Employer

EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL GETS REFORMATIVE TERM A girl who stole a pearl ring from the woman who had employed her a short while before appeared before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Palmerston North yesterday. She was Gwenda Doris Emberson, a domestic, aged 18, charged with the theft at Hunterville on May 10 of a peurl ring, a suitcase, a frock, two pairs of shoes, a torch and £5 in money, *of a total value of £IG 15s, the property of Grace Elizabeth Bull. Accused pleaded guilty and elected to be dealt with summarily. In December last, said Detective O. Power, accused went to Hunterville to work for Mrs Bull. She left after three months, but, returning about two months later, she went through the house one night while people were in it. and took the articles listed in the charge. All except the money had since been recovered. The girl had made an unfortunate start in life, said the detective. Convicted for theft at Lower Hutt in 1931, she was committed to Borstal and when later released on license failed to observe the conditions. She was again released in December, and her job with Mrs Bull was her first employment. Last week at Dannevirke she was convicted and discharged for theft of a wristlet watch from her own sister. She had assisted the police in every way in the present case. Commenting that it was difficult to know what was best to do in such a case, tho Magistrate ordered detention for 12 months in a reformative institution.

An order was made for the return of the property.