A MEAN THEFT.
ROBBING THE POOR. MONEY FROM COLLECTING BOX, WOMAN SENT TO GAOL. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, March 8. “It is a very mean and despicable thing to steal money from hospital funds collected for poor families,” said Mr. Poynton, S.M., when commenting on a charge against Kate MacPherson, aged 60, of having stolen 15s from a collecting box.
Accused was standing on a Queen Street corner yesterday, and in consequence of information given to the police a watch was *et on her. A sergeant saw her shake 27 coins out of her box.
The Magistrate first imposed a sentence of seven days but, on the representation by counsel that his client was an old woman of a peculiar temperament, reduced it to two days.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1924, Page 4
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126A MEAN THEFT. Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1924, Page 4
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