“BRASSIERE BRIGADE”
Three Members Imprisoned (Rec. 10.30) NEW YORK, Nov. 20. Three ' "brassiere brigade” women were sentenced to one . year’s gaol with hard labour today, They had smuggled rolls of coins out of the Telephone Company’s counting room in their brassieres. The three women paid 24,116 dollars back to the company. Cash bonds and motor-cars were turned over in restitution.
Eight relatives and friends accused of being accomplices still face trial.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 71, Issue 35, 21 November 1950, Page 3
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