SHOPLIFTER FINED.
WOMAN STEALS STOCKINGS. WARNING BY ' MAGISTRATE. "If you do it again I will send yon to gaol without the option of a fine," said Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., to Pansy Marguerite Milne Brimble, aged 21, in the Police Court yesterday. Brimble pleaded guilty to a charge of theft from a shop and was fined £5, in default one month's imprisonment. Chief-Detective Hammond said that the offence took place in a city shop on Friday evening a shop assistant seeing the accused take a pair of stockings and place them in her bag. She.was accosted by the assistant; but succeeded in breaking away. There was no need for the young woman to steal, as she was earning £2 10s a week and her husband was also in employment. In convicting the accused the magistrate directed that full restitution be made forthwith.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20667, 12 September 1930, Page 14
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