WHAT THE BABY SAT ON.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 167, 15 July 1914, Page 4

WHAT THE BABY SAT ON.

NEWTON SHOP-LIFTING CASft

THE USES 01- A PRAM.

An..!her case of shop-lifting in X ngahapc Koad. with circumstances .*£& point to a shrewd system, was detaS xestcr.lay afternoon. s, !torth . , ,*» two o-ock a wide awake. trau Mn °_ name! P. \ entns observed a who was accompanied hy a , m £ thirteen yea;.-, and was wheeling a bahv in a perambulator, stop at f,i s s!l i window, and handle the good 3 aide fur display. He k, T t a on her. and saw he r fnrtivelv sl'm boot inn, the pram, whereon he ,L! out and accosted, and at the __£ ,™ summoned Constabic P. __ constable took the party to the Vetrton tu.le. at least a number of theft-- In i.altado,enpi,,ow a ,ipL an.l a pinafore, all obviously new 1 Th woman gave her name ,i s Miilicent Cravenitz, aged thirtv-scven yean! a "he was inclined to braze, out* the situ, tion. but her thirteen-year-old' fi_ nerves were not equal to it, and. t n child* admissions revealed that tie nil low-slips had been taken from Air T i Rradatreefs sbon. the pinafore "from ■Nmmons and White's, and- the pair 3 boots from Mr. E. Bridge's. • The previous day a sing'c d, 0u t U,i been taken from Mr. Ventral! front, and. according to his statement tho one taken by thi, woman w_f_ nmtch for the one taken on Moadar It was the precious theft that had mad him so watchful of his E.hop-front Inquiries made concerning the worn.„ showed that she was in faMv go«l ciimstances and had borne a blamed character hitherto. When the woman and girl, with , statement of the circumstances. ww * Placed before Messrs. ,T. VT. <*&£§ '■'■ EH.td.on, and i r n Cooper,-JJ-"' this mnrmng. the woman ,wasf|| noted and fined a, aml 18/ fitt ° B .