WOMAN CONVICTED.
ELEVEN CHARGES OF THEFT.
PROBATION FOR THREE YE ALLS
(Per Press Association). AUCKLAND’, April 12. Since last August the Auckland police have had "many complaints of thefts from offices by a person invariably described as a woman >n a guy coat. Last Tuesday they located her, and in the Police Court to-day Jessie Russell, 29, a knitter, unmarried adblitted eleven charges’of theft of handbags, money, jewellery and cheques, to a total value of £lOl 14s. , The police said that the money was stolen in amounts ranging from 7s to £lB 18s, and included an amount <n £l7, the life savings of a charwoman. Accused’s method was to loiter about offices, slip through an open door and steal from handbags, or <?ven smai from safes. . , , , , i . -For the defence it was stated .-lat the woman had been partly unmn ployed and had spent the money. Her relatives would repay the charwoman. After, fervent appeals from Uo counsel, the Magistrate, Mr • Hunt, S.M., granted .accused « Inc. years’ probation, on strict conditions.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 155, 13 April 1934, Page 7
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171WOMAN CONVICTED. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 155, 13 April 1934, Page 7
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