HARBOURING ESCAPEE
GIRL FROM A HOME WARNING FROM BENCH (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. i “There was nothing sinister in this case. These people erred through kindness of heart,” said counsel, Mr. H. H. Hanna, in the Magistrate’s Court this morning when a mother and son, Gladys Orchard and Norman Frederick Orchard, were charged with knowingly harbouring a girl who had escaped from the Burwood Girls’ Home. The accused were convicted and ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution. Sub-Inspector McLean said that there had been a number of escapes from the home and the help of the community was expected in returning the girls to that and other institutions. He added that the accused did not at first know the girl was an escapee, but they kept her even after they found out.
The magistrate, Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., said that the public must be made, aware of the fact that there was a severe penalty—a fine of £SO or three months’ gaol—for that type of offence. ‘‘This shows how serious is the view talwm of this sort of thing by the Legislature,” he said.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19370708.2.81
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19371, 8 July 1937, Page 6
Word Count
189HARBOURING ESCAPEE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19371, 8 July 1937, Page 6
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in