A REMARKABLE STORY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19808, 1 December 1927, Page 13

A REMARKABLE STORY.

THEFTS BY A CHILD. ALLEGATION AGAINST WOMAN. A remarkable story, resembling in many respects Dickens' immortal character Fagin, was unfolded in the Adelaide Police Court lately, when a girl, 13 years of age, told the justices that for a long period she had been forced to steal by a woman who had adopted her. The case was one in which Emily Jane Turner, married, was charged on three counts with having feloniously received from the girl, Kathleen Turner, otherwise Violet May Woods, a wristlet watch, valued Jit £lO, and money to the value of 10s, knowing them to have been stolen; with having similarly received from the girl two gold watches and a pearl necklace, valued at £8; and on the same date a gold bracelet and a metal wristlet watch. Evidence was given for the prosecution that accused had received the property from the girl, whom she had adopted. Acting under instructions from accused, the girl had visited several houses, and had stolen the articles mentioned. Accused had told the girl not to tell the police she had brought home articles to her When interviewed by the police accused said the girl had brought homo articles and put them in places in the house, where the police had found them. Accused, who reserved her defence, was committed for trial.