A PLEA THAT FELL FLAT
“MENTAL INSANITY” OF WOMAN IN SOCIETY JUDGE SAYS: “SIX MONTHS I”Australian and. N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, November 17. “There must not be any suggestion that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor in this country,” commented the judge in sentencing Mrs Lesly Gardiner, a - prominent society beauty, who was married last year, to six months’ imprisonment on a charge of stealing dressing-cases. Medical witnesses ’ described her as having a morbid desire to possess the property of others. This was a form of mental insanity. The judge said ha did not understand this. She had been previously convicted in 1914- He declared: “I shall treat her just as I should the poorest woman in the land. Mental insanity means nothing to this court. It is common, vulgar stealing.’'
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12608, 19 November 1926, Page 9
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