IMMIGRANT'S DOWNFALL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13868, 30 September 1908, Page 7

IMMIGRANT'S DOWNFALL.

' A STOLEN POSTAL ORDER. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ' >\vpirß. Tuesday. . At the Magistrate's Court to-day Mr. H. W. Brabant, S.M., delivered judgment in a case heard on the previous day. in which a young woman was charged with having, at Auckland, stolen a postal order for £2, the'property of another young woman. At the close of the case for the prosecution, the magistrate said accused and prosecutrix had been among a. number of young women who came to New Zealand in the steamer Fifeshire, as assisted immigrants. Prosequi had telegraphed to accused when she discovered her loss, and in reply received a letter. This letter had no real bearing on the case, but it detailed a sad case of what occurred on board immigrant ships. The evidence, as a whole, obliged him to convict the accused of the offence. ' A witness was called by Mr. McLean, to give evidence as to accused's character. He stated that the girl had been engaged by his relatives at Home as a domestic servant. If the Court would deal leniently with her,- he was prepared to take her back into his. employment. His Worship said he hoped, as he was about to gi'-e accused the benefit of the New Zealand probation law, that she would not appear before that or any other Court again. She bad much to thank her employer for. She would be admitted to probation for three months, and ordered to pay 5s per week during that period, £2 of the money to be paid to the owner of the postal note,, and the remainder .towards the costs of the prosecution.