THEFT OF HAMS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 42, 17 August 1929, Page 13

THEFT OF HAMS

WOMAN PLEADS GUILTY

The theft of three cooked hams of a total value of £,2 9s lOd, the property of J. C. Hutton (N.Z.), Ltd., was admitted in. the Magistrate's Court yesterday by a single woman Doris May Thwaite, aged 29, for whom Mr. A. Willis appeared.

Chief Detective Lopdell said that the accused kept a small goods- shop in Brooklyn. ■ For some time past she had not been doing too well and she was hard up. She was in the habit of going jto the complainant's depot to get small ! goods twice a week and since March last they had been losing hams. Altogether they had lost .2(5 hanis worth about £19 or £20: The accused would only admit taking three hams but it was a peculiar thing, said the Chief Detective, that the hams were generally missing 6a the days that the accused visited the depot. For a long time the firm had suspected their own employees of these thefts and this suspicion had worked to the detriment of one or two of the employees^ .. '.''•

Aftor hearing counsel for the defendant, Mr.- J. S. Barton, S.M., said: "I am not prepared to consider, probation. This makes - the accused's tenth conviction for theft and she has been admitted to probation twice and fined as high as £,20." The accused was remanded for sentence until Monday.