Police Find £l0,000 Many Goods In House Search

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28440, 21 November 1957, Page 14

Police Find £l0,000 Many Goods In House Search

AUCKLAND, November 20. Police have seized hundreds of pounds worth of shop merchandise from the Newton home of an elderly widow pensioner. They also found £lO.OOO in cash during their search. The widow will be charged with shoplifting, according to Superintendent W. R. Murray, chief of the Auckland Criminal Investigation Branch. Detectives D. Woodhouse and Nora Crawford, who found the goods and the money at the woman’s home after detaining her for an alleged shoplifting offence involving 8s worth of trinkets, finished a nine-page foolscap inventory of all the goods today. Detectives were up until 2 a.m. counting the £lO.OOO. It is believed that this money is the legal property of the widow, who is known to have come into an estate. Among the hundreds of items of merchandise are 140 boxes of fare powder. 112 cosmetic gift sets and general cosmetics, 83 pairs of 3O paint brushes, 21 pairs of underwear, two hymn books, 11 boxes of

(New Zealand Press Association.)

crayons, 25 tins of beans, a doll's pram, 56 half-pound packets of tea, 20 balloons, 21 faceclothes, 67 pairs of slippers, 120 combs. 42 pairs of ear-rings, 74 pieces of imitation jewellery, a canteen of cutlery, and several other carving and silverwear sets. In 1952 in Auckland police seized £2OOO worth of goods which were stolen over a period of years by a woman who confessed to the offences before she died.