SHOPLIFTER GAOLED
CHILD'S GOWN STOLEN
FIVE PREVIOUS OFFENCES
(Per Prnss Association.) AUCKLAND, this day.
Arrested yesterday afternoon on a charge of shoplifting in Karangahapc road. Hilda Bryant, married, aged 4G. in the Police Court to-day admitted having stolen a child's gown valued at 7s Ed.
The police said that Bryant had five previous convictions of this kind of offence.
Defending counsel said that she had yielded to an irresistible impulse. The article was of no use to her, as her grand-daughter had died two weeks ago. On the last occasion she was before the court, a medical certificate was produced showing that she suffered from brain fever. Her husband, who was a most respectable man, was prepared to abandon his employment and take her to live in the country.
Declaring that imprisonment was the only way to deal with such a case, Mr. C. R. 6rr Walker sentenced accused to seven days' imprisonment.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19699, 3 August 1938, Page 7
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