HER 198TH TIME BEFORE THE COURT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17831, 27 April 1926, Page 8

HER 198TH TIME BEFORE THE COURT.

“ HUSBAND WAS A SHIPWRECKED SAILOR.” Yesterday. Christina Lawson, aged seventy, had 197 convictions against her name in the Court records. Now she has 198. Loquacious as ever, the woman appeared at the Magistrate’s Court this morning, and pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to comply with the terms of her release on probation. Sub-Inspector Mathew said that the accused had been ordered to remain at Mount Magdala; but she left there, and now refused to go to any home. A BAILOR’S WIFE. “My husband was a shipwrecked sailor,” was the accused’s opening remark, and from then on she kept up a steady flow of talk. The Magistrate (Mr Young) : Will you go back to Mount Magdala?—No. Certainly not. The waj- the other girls carry on is something awful. They fight so often that we elder ones have to take the nuns’ part I’ve done nothing to get here —my husband was a shipwrecked sailor, and maybe I’ve taken a drop too much sometimes. I’ve never had a chance since I started coming into this Court.” The Magistrate: T sec you have 197 previous convicitions. The accused: That’s so; but I’ve had my punishment for them. The 198th conviction carried one month’s imprisonment with it.

Sueida. LONG the objective of the advancing French columns, Sueida, which has been in the hands of the Jebel-Druze rebels, h a s bee n captured, and the rebels are reported to be fleeing.