SHOPLIFTING ON BIG SCALE
WOMAN IMPRISONED FOR A YEAR (P.A.) DUNEDIN, Dec. 21. May Mahs, a married woman, whose 'Shoplifting- depredations in various city stores, extended over-, a period of two years, was sentenced in the Magistrate’s Court this morning to : ,12 month’s imprisonment for the theft of article valued at £2!?6. It took Chief-Detective Hall 10 minutes to read the details of 23 charges and a further blanket charge to cover the large number of articles whose owners were not yet identified.
Mr W. H. Bundle S.M., said that. Mah’s thefts were systematic and showed considerable cunning in that it was not until she made the mistake of sending to an auctioneering firm that; her crimes were detected
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 62, 22 December 1945, Page 5
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