WOMAN’S PATHETIC STORY
STOLE AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. LOST WAGES FOLLOWING ILLNESS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Oct. 2. When a married woman appeared in court ‘ charged with stealing a hat valued at £3 9s and attempting suicide, a touching story was told of how when accused originally failed to appear to answer the charge the police went at once to her home and found her with her head in a gas oven. After being taken to the hospital she was GO hours unconscious and. spent three and a-half months in the institution after her life had been saved by blood transfusion. She had come to Wellington and spent three months out of work, losing £lOO in wages. It was suggested that she had had very much more punishment than the court could inflict. The theft took place last year and accused had previously been fined for shoplifting. Mr. E. Page, S.M., thought the woman sufficiently punished. He ordered the value of the hat to be paid within seven days.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 October 1929, Page 15
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