SHOPLIFTER DETECTED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day. Anna Alexander Mills, aged 43, pleaded guilty to-'a series of shoplifting charges and was fined £20 with an alternative of one month's imprisonment. The Chief Detective described theoffences as. a Christmas shoplifting tour. The accused had left home yesterday equipped for shoplifting with paper and string. She made a tour of five shops and stole something from all of them. In a ,big city shop a. girl assistant detected her stealing a dressing gown. Two years ago this woman was before the Court for a similar offence, being fined £20 on that occasion also. The Magistrate, Mr. F. X.-Hunt, said that if it was not for the bad state pf_ lrer health he would send her to prison for a month without the option.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 149, 20 December 1929, Page 13
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132SHOPLIFTER DETECTED Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 149, 20 December 1929, Page 13
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