SUPPOSED KLEPTOMANIA.
In lO&nnection TntJi cue case of a, woman cLargefi with theft at tlie Supreme ■.-'"'Court at Duwedin -yesterday, Mr-tFusticfe' Williitin& remarked -thatittf there web suet a; complairiq •as 3depfaanaaii& it looked \vftry ; much ais'slt this was i&n instance of it. ' After long years] of apparent 'honesty, the accused, since the tilth 1 of toer lasft child, had developed- a terid'eiicj'/'whiiih she described as uncontrol'iable; to st^fffeyefgrthihg sheKWllfelay hands ■on. iShehttdtiifeen 1 go-carts, rolls of cloth, glassware in large quantities, arid stored them utp without, <so far as could ►be ascertained, attempting -to make money from them. Husband -anji wife had lived 'together amicably ,f or seventeen years, and he wos ai*i!«»ss to knew itfee. cause of tfce iw^jman's belia.viour. Hie Honor said that he would sentence the woman to two years' imprisonment, flout it' wouSd 'be -open to the <3rown, if it appeared thattfheoffence was comnfitted throwgh -want? of menttfl capacity or restraint, -arising: from -some .change of the -system, t©-nlitigate .the -sentence.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6501, 2 June 1899, Page 3
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