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WOMAN WILL NOT TELL. HUSBAND'S £630. SYDNEY, November 12. Faced with the possibility of a sub stautial term of imprisonment unless she. indicated the whereabouts of iicCO she had stolen, Kose Ann Wallington, at the Quarter Sessions, refused to comply with Judge .Edwards' request to tell the court what had become of the money. She was found guilty of having stolen the money from her husband, and the jury added to its verdict a recommendation for mercy. When brought up for sentence, Mr. McMahon, who appeared for her, said that he had advised Mrs. Wellington to disclose the whereabouts of the money, but she had refused. "It is no use taking up this attitude, madam," said Judge Edwards. "On the evidence, your husband has been a longsuffering man, and unless you can toll me where this money is I cannot carry out tho recommendations of the jury." "Whatever money 1 have is to provide for my old age," replied the accused. She would not alter her attitude, and the matter was adjourned for a week to allow Mrs. Wallington to consider the
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16201, 26 November 1926, Page 7
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184HER SECRET Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16201, 26 November 1926, Page 7
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