SHOPLIFTING.
. ! LABOURER FINED £3. j "(iililty. bill I was very drunk ;it the* time." pleaded Hujdi Thompson, m 1m " ■- ! ourer of .Si*, when charged in t lie I*<•! I Court to-day with stealing a pair • t ; ladies' .-t• x-k.i 11 _u>~ valued at ."■!/ 1 1 from a • Queen Street store yoterdav. j Deteetive-Serpeant Walder said | Thompson's e.t«>ry was that lie intended I to buy a pair of men's sucks, but picked j up tiie ladies' stockings by mistak". When he returned to the simp to ehan.i;-'I tliem he en me under suspicion and when I s|K>ken t.. he dropped the stockings. Mr. Walder added that Thompson u i- ( certailih under the influence of liuuo;. , He had never been in trouble before, j^ Thompson was lined £-'*.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 65, 18 March 1938, Page 9
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125SHOPLIFTING. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 65, 18 March 1938, Page 9
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