THEFT OF RINGS.
MARRIED WOMAN CHARGED. REMANDED FOR ALIENIST. (By Telegraph—nress Association.) AUCKLAND, Friday. Dorothy Meyrick, aged 28, married, pleaded guilty to-day to the theft or diamond rings worth £l7 10s, £SO and £3O from city jewellers. The police evidence was that she asked to he shown rings and cleverly substituted cheap ones. She had a long list of previous convictions. Accused’s counsel said it was a case for an alienist, rather than a lawyer. He strongly urged the case was pathological rather than criminal, and that prison would never reform her. Counsel asked that accused be remanded for a week'to be examined by an alienist. The magistrate readily agreed, say-t Ing that he would 'be glad to have such a report.
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19052, 16 September 1933, Page 9
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122THEFT OF RINGS. Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19052, 16 September 1933, Page 9
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