SHOPLIFTING ADMITTED

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 110, 5 November 1926, Page 8

SHOPLIFTING ADMITTED

MARRIED WOMAN FINED.

"I ask your Worship to take into consideration the vital temperamental difference regarding clothes in* men and women. This ease is not like that of a man who, in passing a shop, takes a p.tir of boots from a display bench," said Mr. W. E. Leicester, in the Magistrate's Court today, when Florence Turner, a married woman, aged 43, admitted stealing twelve yards of crepe, valued at 18s, from the shop of C. Smith, Ltd. The accused, Mr. Leicester explained, had succumbed to sudden temptation; she had not gone into the building v.itii the intention of stealing. As a matter of fact, she was leaving the place, and stopped at the doorway to pick up a roll of cloth which had fallen on the"floor. Something came over her, however, and she put the cloth in her basket. Chief Detective Ward stated that the accused was seen taking the cloth fvom a stool in the doorway. So far as was known she had never been in trouble before. She owned her own house, aiid was in fairly comfortable circumstances. Mr. B. Page, S.M., imposed a fine of £5, and allowed the accused a week in which to pay. An application for the suppression of her name was refused.