DIAMOND RING CASE

Taranaki Daily News, 31 October 1935, Page 4

DIAMOND RING CASE

YOUNG WOMAN FOUND GUILTY. JURY RECOMMENDS MERCY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The trial of Veronica Pope, a dressmaker, aged 24 years, on charges of stealing a diamond ring valued at £s° and £5 in money from a neighbour ended in the Supreme Court to-day with the conviction of Pope on both counts. In returning its verdict the jury strongly recommended mercy. The prisoner was remanded for sentence. During the hearing Oriel Marion Pope, a sister, corroborated accused’s evidence that a boy called for the letter and witness handed it to him. Roy Edgar Lionel Scott said he heard a conversation with accused outside the shop. A woman was inquiring for Mrs. Stott and there was some mention of a 11 Addressing the jury Mr. Sullivan said there was not a shadow of evidence that accused stole the ring. Mr. V. Hubble, Crown Prosecutor, suggested that Hiere was a motive for the theft, as stcused was expecting the bailiff to call in connection with a distress warrant. Mr. Justice Callan, concluding his summing up, said the key to the case was: Could the jury or could they not accept the belated story that had been told by the accused and her witnesses in the court yesterday and to-day?

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