IN MALE ATTIRE.
GIRL ESCAPES FROM REFORMATORY. CHRISTCHURCH, September 20. Maria Marks, who escaped from the Burwood Girls’ Home, appeared in the Magistrate's Court to-day dressed in male attire to answer a charge of being idle and disorderly. “She’s a girl all right, sir, though she looks like a boy,” said Sub-inspector Fitzpatrick to Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., when the accused, with close-cut hair and wearing a man’s coat, shirt, and trousers stepped into the dock. The sub-inspector stated that the girl escaped from the Burwood Home on August 26, and since then had been in Lyttelton leading a loose and immoral life. The magistrate agreed to remand the girl in custody -till September 27 to enable the matron to take step's for her transfer to the Borstal institution.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3889, 25 September 1928, Page 49
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130IN MALE ATTIRE. Otago Witness, Issue 3889, 25 September 1928, Page 49
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