Girl Tells Judge—‘You Should be Shot”
When a 20-year-old girl was sentenced by the Reading (England) Recorder, Mr St. John Micklethwait, to three years at a Borstal institution, she cried: 4 4 You wicked old judge, you ought to be shot.” She was Hazel Dora Ainsworth, described as a cook, charged with obtaining 15s 3d by false pretences. Mr J. S. Smuts, defending, said tho girl had served a period of six months’ har'd labour for a similar offence, and on coming out of prison had obtained a post. She had ben blackmailed by a former fellow prisoner, and had since lost her job. Ainsworth, he added, was very anxious to marry next February a soldier now serving in Palestine. After tho Recorder sentenced her, the girl was carried struggling and crying from the dock by two wardresses.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 27, 2 February 1937, Page 4
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138Girl Tells Judge—‘You Should be Shot” Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 27, 2 February 1937, Page 4
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