SHOP THEFTS
Two Girls Caught ' Two girls, aged 11 years, admitted in the children’s court at Wellington on Saturday stealing numerous small articles from three Wellington shops. Goods worth 6/2 had been taken from the D.1.C., articles worth 5/11 from Woolworths, and haberdashery worth 3/74 from the shop of J. R. McKenzie, Ltd'. Detective-Sergeant L. Revell said that the girls came into Wellington from Lower Hutt one day last month and" stole the articles. - They were caught in the act in the D.I.C. and the articles mentioned in the charges were found In their possession. They came from good families. The father of one of the girls said that he could not explain the lapse, except by their falling to temptation. His own daughter attended church regularly. Accepting the explanation of the parent, Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M., admonished the girls, committed them to the care of the Child Welfare Department and ordered fliem not to associate with each other.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 111, 4 February 1935, Page 2
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160SHOP THEFTS Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 111, 4 February 1935, Page 2
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