'Stair-dance thefts’ on the rise
The police were worried bv a spate of "stairdancing.’’ in Christchurch, the police prosecutor. Sergeant J. R. Palmer, told the Magistrate’s Court in Christchurch.
“Stair-dancing”—a name given to the theft of money which was not under safe-keeping—was often the result of carelessness by the public, said Sergeant Palmer. Shop assistants were often asked to get the manager, and the cash register was burgled in their absence, and people were inveigled away from their propertv by any means, he said. If offenders were caught loitering their defence
often was that they were waiting for a friend, or had asked to see someone.
The public needed to he especially careful that personal property was not left unattended, he said.
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Press, 30 December 1976, Page 14
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