THEFT OF RINGS
WOMAN PLEADS GUILTY SENTENCE DEFERRED (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Dorothy Mevrick, 2S, married, pleaded guilty in the Police Court today to the theft of diamond rings worth £l7 10s, £SO, and £3O from city jewellers. The 'police evidence was that she asked to be shown rings and cleverly substituted cheap ones. She had a long list of previous convictions. Her counsel said it was a case for an alienist rather than a lawyer. All the offences with which the woman had ever been charged had occurred at the time of pregnancy or shortly afterwards. In this case a well-known business man was responsible for her condition, and when asked to pay the confinement expenses said ho could not afford it. The woman then stole and pawned or sold the rings ( and with the money paid the hospital and other expenses. Counsel strongly urged that the case was pathological rather than criminal, and that prison would never reform her.
The magistrate expressed a doubt whether all the woman’s offences were clue to one cause. Counsel asked that accused be remanded for a week and examined by an alienist. The magistrate readily agreed to this, saying that he would be glad to have such a report.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18194, 15 September 1933, Page 11
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