CHARGES OF THEFT
YOUNG GIRL CONVICTED “REALLY CAN’T HELP IT” Wives are no respecters of their lesser halves’ belongings, it seems. When one uses her husband’s best leather suit-case as an ironing board, there is no knowing what they may do next. Dr. Kinder, however, far from complaining about it, has cause to be thankfLil for his wife’s treatment of his case, . for the burn marks left by the iron enabled the doetpr to identify it in the Police Court yesterday. A plump little lady. Clarice Adelaide Wynne, who had been employed as an attendant at Dr. Kinder’s rooms in Parnell for a little over a month, as “Gertrude Page,” was charged With stealing the suit-case, and also with stealing two lots of fees —two guineas and one—which she admitted having collected from patients and given receipts. The girl, who left the doctor’s employ on Febiaiary 9 —the same day as the suit-case had also left —said that she put the money in a green box in a drawer of the doctor’s writing-desk. When he came to look for it, it was not there.
The magistrate, Mr. F. Iv. Hifnt, thought that there was some doubt about the money and dismissed these two charges.
Dr. Kinder was very positive that the bag was his for, in addition to the marks of his wife’s iron, he had replaced the locks at one time and recognised his own handiwork. In the witness-box, the girl, who came to New Zealand as an assisted immigrant in 1925, was just as positive that the bag was hers. Her father bought it in London, she said, and she brought it out with her. The magistrate, however, disbelieved her story about tne bag and convicted her and ordered her to come up for sentence if called on. It was mentioned then that sentence on previous charges against her had been stood down to enable arrangements to be made with her friends in England to have her sent back. “She really can’t help it,” said Major Annie Gordon, under whose care the girl will remain in the meantime. “It’s kleptomania witji her. She’s a clever girl otherwise.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 38, 7 May 1927, Page 15
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359CHARGES OF THEFT Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 38, 7 May 1927, Page 15
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