A DISTRESSING CASE.
[by telegraph.—press association.] Dunkdin, Monday. At the City Police Court, Annie Robinson, a married woman with three children, whoso husband is an invalid, was charged with the theft of a doormat. She made a piteous appeal to tho Bench, pleading she had been obliged to steal in order to procurge bread for her children. She was convicted of the offence, and ordered to come up for aontence when called on.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8630, 28 July 1891, Page 5
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