THEFTS FROM SHOPS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18461, 15 August 1925, Page 14

THEFTS FROM SHOPS.

❖ WOMAN SENTENCED TO GAOL. (TOESS ASSOCIATION TELEoI'.AH.) AUCKLAND, August U. Six charges of stealing troin city firms clothing aud laney goods of a total value of Li\i ifts (Jd were admitted by Mabel Olivia Cross, agetl 'M years (Mr A. Moody), in the .Magistrate's Court to-day. Aecustd pteaued guilty to turtuer etiarges ot 'commit suicuic on <)iuy 10111, and ot committing a breach ot 1110 conditions ot lier release 011 pronation Lvidencc was given by Detective Nalder that lie ana Detective U'isrien recovered tho property meniioneci m tlio charges from tne accused's house. She was quite irauJt aud toid tnem where tho articles were stolen. Alter being admitted to bait she attempted to take her fire by drinking poison. 111 June, J!>Hl, slio was convicted and given fivo years probation on charge.-* of shop-littmg. Mr ->ioody, lor accused, said accused was married and had one child. it. was a strange case. She stole, tho articles, but made no attempt to use tlieni, with the exception or a pair of stockings. If she wero given another chance her husband would take her into tho country or right out of New Zealand. Adjutant Gordon said accused had a home any woman could bo proud of, and she could not understand ner action. • .tier husband denied her nothing and he had a good income. The effects of poisoning were still causing her a great deal of pain. Tho Magistrate said lio certainly would not extend probation. By doing so he would be reducing probation to comic opera, if ho did not think she had punished herself ho would give her three years' reformative detention, but he would take this feature into con- . sideration. j Chief-Detective Cummings: She has been stealing since last September, although sho was on probation. ' On the charge of stealing from Hart Bros, accused was sentenced to threo months' imprisonment, and for stealing Roods from Milne and Choyce, Ltd., sho was • admitted to probation lor live 1 years. .Sho was convicted and discharged on other counts.