WOMAN FINED £loo
TAMPERED WITH TELEPHONE Press Association NAPIER, Wednesday Judgment was given by Mr A. M Mow em. S.M., today in the case in which Mona Catherine Yeo was chargee with wilfully interfering with the working of the telephones in her residence. The magistrate said the house hac been raided by the police under c search warrant, and subsequently defendant’s husband was charged undei the Gaming Act. The telephone wire* plainly had been .interfered with ir such a manner that they could be controlled from various parts of the house The question resolved itself intc whether defendant had wilfully interfered with the wires. She must have known her husband’s occupation, anc then it became a question of whethei she allowed the telephones to be intereferd with. The magistrate said hi thought that she did. The only matter remaining was the question of penalty. Defendant was liable to a fine of £IOO or a year’s imprisonment. He saw no reason why In should not impose the maximum fine which he did.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 966, 8 May 1930, Page 16
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171WOMAN FINED £l00 Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 966, 8 May 1930, Page 16
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