POLICE OFFICE, NELSON.
On Saturday last, a girl, thirteen years of age, named Jane Hopgood, was brought before the Police Magistrate, charged with stealing a pair of children's boots from the shop of Mr. Mills. There was also a separate charge against the father and mother for receiving the stolen property, knowing it to have been stolen. The shoes had been sold by one of the girl's sisters, at the direction of the mother, They were produced in court, and Mr. Mills swore to the private mark, which was still upon them. The girl confessed to having stolen the shoes.
The mother, during the examination of her children on the charge against her, conducted herself somewhat obstreperously, and accused her daughters of making up a story among themselves. She was committed to take her trial.
The father was discharged, and the girl had a month's confinement, a fortnight of the time to be solitary.
The whole family appeared to be anything but a respectable set. Not one of them could write their name, and the mother was most anxious to make the magistrate believe that her daughter (the prisoner) did not understand the nature of an oath.
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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 17, 2 July 1842, Page 67
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197POLICE OFFICE, NELSON. Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 17, 2 July 1842, Page 67
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