THEFT OF A HAT
Per Press Association.
EOLLOWED BY ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. HARROWING STORY TGLD IN COURT.
WELLINGTON, This day. When a married woman appeared in the court, charged with stealing a hat valued at £3 9s, and attempting suicide, a touching story was told of how, wheu accused originally failed to appear to answer the charge, the police went at ouce to her home and found her with her head in a gas oven. After being taken to hospital slie was for G0 hours unconsoious. and spent three and a lialf months in the institution. After his wife had been saved by nhlood transfnsion, her husband bad come to Wellington and spent tbrec months out of work, losing £100 and wages, and it was supeested that she had had verv muoh more punishment tlmn the eourt could inflict. The theft took plaee last year and aecused had previously been fined for sh^n-lifting. Mr E. Page, S.M.. thouelit that the •woman had heen sufficiently punished. Ho ordered that the value of the hat be paid within seven days.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 207, 2 October 1929, Page 9
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177THEFT OF A HAT Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 207, 2 October 1929, Page 9
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