A WOMAN BURGLAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15234, 22 February 1913, Page 2 (Supplement)

A WOMAN BURGLAR.

BRIDEGROOM'S STOLEN GOODS. The career of 'a woman burglar, the wife of a hard-working man, was described at Middlesex Sessions recently, when Ami Arnold, aged 35, pleaded guilty, and her 15-year-old : daughter Rebecca was found guilty of stealing goods from a house which Mr. G. R. Graves had furnished in view of his approaching marriage. Mr. Pvircell, prosecuting, said a detective had seen the accused looking through the letter-boxes of houses, two of which were empty. Later ho saw them carrying a basket which the woman said contained washing, but which was found to contain a jemmy, keys, scissors, and various house- - hold goods. At the woman's home were found 27, pawn-tickets relating to the proceeds of seven other burglaries, the stoler property being worth several hundreds oi pounds. A detective said the mother waj now on probation. Her husband was i hard-working man and allowed her i reasonable sum, so that there was no oc casion for her to thieve. Several cases o: burglary at private • houses, crickel pavilions, and school had been traced tc - her. ■ Mr. Sharpe, remarking that the mothei had tried to drag her daughter into a lif< of crime, sentenced her to 18 months' iin prisonment. The girl was bound over and sent to a home.