THEFT OF A RING
MONEY PROCURED FOR RANSOM YOUNG WOMAN GRANTED PROBATION. f Pica United ■i'kk.-c- a-;-!. :m:o -. . AUCKLAND, November 4. Two years’ probation was granted Veronica Pope, aged 24, a dress., -.ker, on condition that she paid by instalments the costs of the prosecution.' V.u accused • i s found guilty last week - f stealing a ring valued at £SO and also with stealing £5 in connection with a scheme to ransom the ring. The jury' * made a strong recommendation tp mercy. Mr Sullivan, for the accused, said that the girl was to be married this coming month and asked for probation. “ I have given the case careful consider ition and have arrived unhesitatingly at the decision that it is a ca ■ for probation,” said Mr Justice Callan. “I did not know before that she intended to get married.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22720, 5 November 1935, Page 10
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139THEFT OF A RING Otago Daily Times, Issue 22720, 5 November 1935, Page 10
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