SHOPLIFTER DETECTED

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 94, 15 January 1929, Page 13

SHOPLIFTER DETECTED

TEMPTATION TOO GREAT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, January 12. A charge of "shop lifting" was preferred against Marie Enwright, agpd 39. a married woman, who was fined £5 or one month’s imprisonment when she appeared in the Magistrate's Court. Chief-Detective Hammond said the woman took a piece of fancy work displayed for sale aud was seen with it by pne of the shop assistants. As soou as she knew she had been detected she threw it away. The piece of fancy work was of no use to her and it appeared she had given way to sudden temptation.

A weird story lies behind the death of the Earl of Durham. In the Middle Ages, a legend says one of the heirs of Lambton. whose castle is now the North country seat of the Earls of Durham, went on a Sunday fishing expedition. His solitary catch was a small worm, which he threw down a well, aud then cursed heartily. Off the fisherman went to the wars, nud when he came back was told terrible tales, of how this worm had grown half a mile long, and was ravaging the country. A witch then hade him kill it, and asked that he should also kill the first living thing he met. This proved to be his father. He then would not carry out the witch's programme, and she swore that, the next nine heirs to the earls would die violent deaths. This, it is stated, was fulfilled.