THEFTS FROM SHOPS.
TWO WOMEN FINED. (DBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, November 13. Mary Madeline Jessie Thompson, aged 35 years, and Ada May Edgecombe, aged 45 years, two married women, employed as domestics, admitted extensive and systematic thefts from city shops? in the Magistrate's Court, They jointly pleaded.guilty to stealing goods valued at £loo, and 2.rs Edgecombe alone to the theft of goods valued at £3B. When Mrs Edgecombe's house was searched, stolen goods worth £l4O were found there. But for the fact that one of the accused was in ill-health, the Magistrate, Mr P. K. Hunt, said be would have sentenced both to two years' imprisonment. Edgecombe was fined £4O, and Thompson £2O, ten days being allowed in which to- pay.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19467, 14 November 1928, Page 14
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