SENT TO PRISON
WOMAN SHOPLIFTER.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WANGANUI, This Day. Flora Ellen Williams, a married woman, aged 41, was sentenced to-day to fourteen days' imprisonment with hard labour for a series of oifences of shoplifting spread over a period of six months. The goods recovered were valued at approximately £21, and were composed chiefly of drapery. The prisonor carried a large black bag, and into this goods were dropped. In passing sentonce, the Magistrate, Mr. Barton, said that there wero three kinds of offences which were far too common: Tho thefts of bicycles by men, the pillaging of cargo by transport workers, and, unfortunately, shop-lift-ing by women. The offenders in those cases could not expect a. warning in each instance.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 131, 30 November 1926, Page 11
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121SENT TO PRISON Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 131, 30 November 1926, Page 11
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