“TOLD A FOOLISH LIE”

Taranaki Daily News, 15 August 1933, Page 5

“TOLD A FOOLISH LIE”

MARRIED WOMAN’S CRIME. PROBATION FOR A YEAR. An order for the suppression of her name was made by Mr. Justice Ostler at New Plymouth yesterday when admitting a married woman to probation for a year on condition that £2 towards the costs of the prosecution was paid within a month. In the lower court she had pleaded guilty to’ making a false declaration under the Post and Telegraph Act. On her behalf Mr. A. A. Bennett pointed out that she was 33 years old. She had already been substantially punished first in facing the _ lower . court proceedings and secondly in having to appear in the . Supreme Court for sentence that day. She had been in serious ill-health at the time of the offence. In fact it was only on the Friday before the declaration was made that she was discharged from hospital. The trouble had originated through her using money from het husband to pay another account, and then she had feared to admit her fault. So the matter had developed to the present stage. It Was not likely that such trouble would occur again, said counsel. Up till this she had borne an unblemished character. He pointed out that her name had been suppressed in the lower court and commended that aspect of the matter to his , Honour’s attention. His Honour said the prisoner had ; started by telling a very foolish lie, thus landing her within the net of the law. However, the probation ©facer's report

<wes that she was a good wife and mother and the court was willing to take that into consideration.