ALREADY PUNISHED
MARRIED WOMAN’S THEFT [ Per Press Association ] WELLINGTON, Oct. 2 When a married woman appeared at th - Court charged with stealing a hat, valued at £3 9s and attempting suicide, a touching story was told of how, when accused originally failed to appear tc answer the charge, the police went at once to her home and found her with her head in a gas oven. After being taken to hospital she was 60 hours unconscious and spent three and a half months in an intsitution after her life had been saved by blood transfusion. Her husband had come to Wellington and spent three months out of work, losing £lOO in wages. It was suggested she had had very much more punishment than the Court could inflict. The theft took place last year, and accused had previously been fined for shoplifting. Air Page, S.M., thought the woman sufficiently punished, and ho ordered the value of the hat to be paid within seven days.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 235, 3 October 1929, Page 3
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