WANTED TO BRING HER HUSBAND BACK

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 64, 17 March 1931, Page 8

WANTED TO BRING HER HUSBAND BACK

WOMAN STOLE FROM THE GUEST OF HER EMPLOYER

Robina Pike, a domestic servant, aged twenty-one years, told the Court this morning, through her counsel, Mr Stacey, that the reason why she stole money from the house where she was working was to be able to buy some furniture so that her husband would come back to her. The full charge was that she stole £ll in money, the property of Billie Pauline Armstrong. The accused pleaded guilty.

Chief-Detective Carroll said that th accused was a married woman, separated from her husband. The complainant was staying with people of the name of Matson, and had received the money for her school fees. The accused was working there and after money went missing she was found to be spending a lot of money. She had one previous conviction and had been eighteen months in a Borstal institution.

Mr Stacey said that accused had been married at the age of eighteen, and had one child. She had had a lot of matrimonial trouble. Her husband had said that, if she could get the money for some furniture they would set up house again. That was her aim in taking the money. She was not the type who would benefit from imprisonment.

The Magistrate (Mr E. D. Mosley) said that one would have thought that the accused’s previous lesson would have been sufficient. She would be convicted and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour.