BOARDING ROUSE GOODS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19512, 16 December 1926, Page 16

BOARDING ROUSE GOODS.

THiEi.PT BY -MA:N.A6:EI*JES£, " GOODS STOLEN FOR SPITE." "I stole them for spite," was a remark made in a statement to -the jjtolieo ;by a woman charged in the Police Court yesterday with -theft of a mattasss, toilet set, two table runners, 'one pair, of sheets, two quilts and some cutlery, of a total value of £lO 9s 6d, the property of David Lewis o'O.pnnelL She pleaded .not.guilty. O'Dptmeli saidi lie owned at boarding house in Scotia. Place, and al#c>ufc seven months ago he gave- accused, whom .he had kjjowß for, oyer, two years,; the position o.f manageress. She gave riafeim, but left before!, the notice expired, and be then found : the goods, were mfeing. 111, reply to counsel, said accused gave him two boxes to store for her. Counsel:, One of these boxes she has not recovered '-^AYitne.s.s: I cifruld not say anything about that.. Counsel: The fact is that acc.tos.ed supplied a quantity of material fcfc" use in the establishment. The goods fche took away are not even as valuable as those she "brought. Witness denied (this. Detective McWhirter read;: a istatecient obtained from accused, iu whiclli she 'Siaid she got a: carrier to remove some property of her ov?«. aod ; . tool? sqwjjs of; O'Dopnell's propeLrty out of: spfite* Tlje. magistrate, Mr. Hunt, cotftviefed accused ana ordered lier to come 'up for sentence when called upon, spring he agreed wijili counsel that there, 'was no intention of theft,, but as the g<x«dss we taken, h® . would h®y& to eßter ai'&mviction. ''