"UNDUE TEMPTATION."
DOMESTIC'S OFFENCES.
ADMITTED TO PROBATION. «———— ] (Bjr Telegraph.—P.rens Association.) WELLINGTON, thi* day. "I think this is a case where the trader is partly responsible. It is putting undue temptation in a person's way to allow £30 of credit when a simple inquiry in the telephone book would J unclose an imposition," said Mr. Mazengarb in the Police Court to-day, defending Fiona Marion King, aged 32, a domestic. King wa« charged with the theft of a musquash fur coat valued at £50, the property of (J. Smith, Ltd., and two inen'e suits and a bowler hat valued *t £8 10/, the property of Hallenstein Bros. Police Mated that considerable forethought had been shown. Tlie coat was in good order and an expenditure, of £3 3/ would make it aa good as new. When located a man with whom she was living was wearing the clothe*. The hat had been exchanged at the firm's •hop at Palmerston North. Accused was admitted to probation, the conditions being restitution of £3 3/ and £8 10/.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 255, 27 October 1937, Page 16
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