WOMAN’S THEFT OF LOAF
DRIVEN TO IT BY STARVATION
When Mrs Helen Perring forty-five, pleaded guilty at Croydon, in England, to having stolen a loaf of bread valued at twopence from a AvindoAVsill of a house a detective said, “ I think it is a genuine case of being driven to it practically by starvation. There, are two young children, and the family undoubtedly is in a very bad
Avay.” It was' stated that when arrested Mrs Perring refused for a long time to give her address, as she did not Avant her husband tci knoAv. He Avas a commercial traveller, but Avas away locking for work, having been unemployed for about Lavo years.
Mrs Perring said she had been looking for work. The chair: “What are you living on at present?”
Mrs Perring (in tears): “We are not living, sir.”
“We hope you will not do this again,” said the chairman in discharging her and directing the probation officer to help her.
Someone in the court immediately gave the probation officer ten shillings for the woman’s assistance.
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Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3468, 19 May 1934, Page 3
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