A FALLEN FEMALE.

NZ Truth, Issue 179, 21 November 1908, Page 6

A FALLEN FEMALE.

A Magdalen of Mt. Magdala.

Theresa Torrence is a middle-aged, woman who wanders around Christchut oh m an objectionable manner whenever she gets the opportunity, and her vagaries are a constant source •of anxiety to ' the local police. She has been a member of Mount Magdala Home on numerous occasions, but her liability to. desert the institution . and go put into the sinful world has made • the management tired, and it is probable that Mount Magdala doesn't care a shilling's worth of fish on Friday if it never sees ; Theresa again. When the lady appeared m the Spreyidon district, Constable Jackson betrayed marked perturbation, and after investigating her night habits for five days, during which time.:she had slept out at various places, he arrested her for 'her* own protection. When questioned, the woman said she had been m Mount Magdala on several occasions,' but that institution's" experience of Theresa was so unpleasant that it , REFUSED TO TAKE HER BACK. The bobby had no alternative but-to arrest her for wandering at , large m a vagabond, state, and his action furnished a problem for Magistrate Bishop afterWards. A Salvanny ' matron happened to be m Court and offered to take charge of Theresa, who appears to 'be a shingle short, and Theresa being agreeable she was convicjbed and discharged on the understanding that she entered the kneedrill establishment. "If you sleep about, the streets," remarked Magistrate Bishop, at the close of air instructive homily, "you will be found dead of of these mornings."