NURSERY MAID’S LAPSE.
THEFT OF MONEY AND JEWELLERY.
W ELLINGTON, August 3. Ruth Grace Moat, aged 27, a nurse who came from England last year, pleaded guilty to-day to the theft of £3 and a ring valued at £1 10s. She also appeared for sentence on a charge of the theft of £lO, to which she pleaded guilty last Friday. Some of the thefts were committed at the Y.W .C.A. Hostel. The ring was stolen from a nurse at a private hospital The police stated that the accused had committed the thefts at Christchurch from various employers, and was regarded as an imposter.
The magistrate (Mr E. Page) ordered that accused be detained for reformative treatment for a period not exceeding 12 months. The accused’s plea was that she came to the Dominion understanding that she was to be a nursery maid, and she found that her mistress required a housemaid. She did not regard herself as a qualified nurse. There was little demand for nursery maids. She had been prac-Z tically penniless during her stay in New Zealand.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3882, 7 August 1928, Page 18
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