GAOL FOR BURGLARIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20793, 9 February 1931, Page 11

GAOL FOR BURGLARIES.

MARRIED COUPLE'S CRIMES

PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES.

(Received February 8, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 7.

Shelagh Hann, aged 24, pleaded guilty at the Middlesex sessions on three charges of housebreaking with her husband, George Evelyn Hann, aged 31, whom a detective described as the son of an exsuperintendent of prisons at Fremantle. The femalo accused admitted having given a false name when she was married.

A detective stated in evidence that the woman was trained as a hospital nurse. She gave up that work owing to ill health. She disappeared from her home and lost her memory. In 1928 she recovered and married Hann in December.

Hann served in the British Army in the Great War, said fitness, and later joined the American Army. Afterwards he was a ship's steward. Hann told the Bench his wife was bitterly opposed to burglaries. Once when he was going out she took his tools and threw thorn into a river. He pleaded that other men were involved. He had spent every penny he possessed on his wife's and his own maintenance. He hoped to obtain sufficient money to go to Australia. Mrs. Hann said her husband had done it all for her owing to illness preventing him working.

Hann was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment and his wife to 12 months, both in the second division.