WHOLESALE THEFTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14481, 30 June 1911, Page 3

WHOLESALE THEFTS.

YOUNG "WOMAN. COMMITTED FOB SENTENCE. Daisy Alexandra Lund, twenty-three rears of «&-c, belonging to Point, was charged before Mr V. G. Day. S.M., in tlie Magistrate's Court yesterday, with fiteaLing: (1) on or about' June 19th, articles of clothing and'one dross'basket, valued £3, the property of Elizabeth Fenwick;(2) on or about March 27th articles of clothing valued £1 10s, the property of Florence Beatrice Worry; (3) on or about March 27th, articles of clothing valued at 7s 6d and 25s in money, the property of one Priscilla /Branton; (4) on or about March 27th, articles or clothing valued at £3 15s, the property of Alico Campbell; (o) on or about June 19tll, five blouses, # valued 30s. th<* property of Eva Fenwick, of Waimataitai; (6) on or about Julie 19th, ; goods valued -at 30s, the property of J Catherine Beiliy. ! Mr W.j D. 'Campbell appeared for I accused. I Sub-Inspector Plinir outlined the j facts of, thie cases. Accused was stay- \ in<x in Worry's Hotel, and in the Mel- ' villo Hotel, when the floods from theso S laces were stolen. In the case of Irs Fesnwick the house was broken i into by a window being broken. •' Betty Fomvick gave evidence •' ing the thefts from her house. She was spending a holiday in the country, and had properly secured the doors and windows of her'house at "Waimataitai. When she returned, a window at the rear of the house was broken and the house was ransacked, all the goods named in the charge being missing. She valued tlio goods' at £4 los Eva Fen wick, & grand-daughter of ) the former, witness, gave corroborative j evidence. The back ' window was ( broken, and the doors inside the house .were open. The articles named in the second information were those produced. and were vnlued by her at 30s. Ernest McDonald, railway clerk, remembered that on the 19th of June, accused left the dress basket, produced, for storage, in the name of Mrs Mintro. At 11.2-0 a.mr on the 23rd, accused took delivery of the basket. Florence N. Worry, daughter-in-law of the proprietress of Worry's Private Hotel, gave evidence regarding tlie articles of clothing she lost from her tooth on March 2oth. Alice Canmbeil, swore to the goods produced, as thos/> stolen from her bedroom during Starch. Charles Ncwccme, nianagcr of Weny's Private Hotel, V.a.d accused booked a room o March 2oth. He beca ae suspicious of her, hrving seen her in rooms other thnn her own.-On the 2Sth she left tho place and the stole, i goods wero found to he missing;. '■ Catherine Tle.lly, said the goods were stolon from her room in the Mclriile Hotel on March 25th. N Detectivo Fah*v said he arrested accused on the 21st inst. and produced statements, signed by her and given voluntarily, in confession of all the thorns. Accused denied later bavins taken tho skirt and gloves from Mrs Worry and the money from Mrs Branton His Worship, on the rceommondatioi of tlie police, agreed to the withdrawal .of the charges . concerning these items. His Worship committed* accused foi asnteice at the next sitting of tin Supreme Court it- Timsu-u, bail lwiii aiWo:l in one suretv of illOO or tw( Of £SO. Accused's father went bail for her, !