WOMAN SENT TO GAOL
SHOPLIFTING CHARGES LENIENCY MISPLACED t (TYr Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. A married woman who had previously been convicted on three occasions for theft and who committed three shoplifting offences while still on probation, was sent to prison by Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday. She was Nellie Josephine Magill, aged 3-1, and she pleaded guilty to three charges of stealing, on March 17, a variety of articles. The magistrate said that Magill had been admitted to probation for two years last August, when she was convicted on four charges of theft. Evidently this had not succeeded m keeping her away Crom temptation. In 1929 she had been convicted and ordered to come up for senence for theft. Then, in 1934, on three chargeshe was again given another chance. ■'And now she i sin trouble again,' said the" magistrate. "She is flouting the law and the conditions of her probation so I do not propose to pass this over. Her children can be looked after and, on that condition. I am going to impose a short term of imprisonment."
Magill was to two wee* in prison.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19893, 22 March 1939, Page 14
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195WOMAN SENT TO GAOL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19893, 22 March 1939, Page 14
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