PREYING ON SOLDIERS
"W'O.MA.N FOUKD OUT. (TJhitzd Fbbbs Association?.] CHRIST-CHURCH, C\lay 15. In tho tiuprome Court to-day, Mary i'-j.eu liiggins was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon on a charge of,stealing £-50 16s. A gunner in the Expeditionary Force allotted a portioD of his pay to her. .Shewas to bank it for him. 'On being invalided liome he found' she- 'was married, and i-nat she had spent the money. Mr -.'l's-vtiee. iDenniston describe-] it as a most ;**ab.by act, and said he would have imposed a. sentence hut for the accused's condition.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 16 May 1917, Page 3
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97PREYING ON SOLDIERS Nelson Evening Mail, 16 May 1917, Page 3
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