THEFT BY WOMAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20563, 14 May 1930, Page 14

THEFT BY WOMAN.

"CHANCE TO GO STRAIGHT."

PROBATION FOR WO YEARS

"If there is a chance that accused will go straight, I am the last one to stand in her way," remarked tho magistrate. Mr. F. K. Hunt, when Ivy Hazel Kite appeared before him in the Police Court yesterday charged with the theft of a suit of men's clothes and a leather brief bag, valued at £5 12s 6d. Mr. Clark appeared for accused, who pleaded guilty. Chief-Detective Hammond said accused had gone to the home of an elderly man, and while he was out buying somo liquor, v she had departed, taking the clothes and the bag with her. She had just been released from a term of reformative detention and had a list of previous convictions. In asking that accused bo given another chance, Mr. Clark said she left gaol three months ago with the full intention of going straight. She found, however, that she could not obtain work owing to her inability to furnish references. Since the present theft she had obtr.ir.ed employment. in the home of a woman, who, she claimed, was prepared to keep her in work, if she were given a chance. Remarking that accused would have to Bee t'hat she behaved herself this time, or she would bo sent to gaol for six months', the magistrate placed her on probation for two years and ordered .her to make restitution to the amount of £2.