SHOPLIFTING

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 156, 30 December 1940, Page 9

SHOPLIFTING

MARRIED WOMAN FINED

A PREVENTIVE ORDER

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, This. Day,

Seven charges of shoplifting were admitted by a married woman, Edith May Osborne, aged 48, in the Magistrate's Court'this morning. DetectiveSergeant McClung, who. appeared for the police, said the offences had been committed between February 5 and December 24 of this year. " Osborne had come to town on Christmas Eve to do some shopping and hsr actions in one shop had aroused suspicion and the police had been called in. The accused had admitted thefts at four city shops that day.

Counsel who appeared for Osborne said the accused was connected with church work in the city, being connected with the Edgeware Road Methodist Church, and was also secretary of the St. Albans Christian Women's Temperance Union. .

On a charge of stealing goods, to the value of : £ls 8s she was fined £10, and on a charge of stealing clothing to the value of £7 8s she was placed on.probation for twelve months. Convictions were entered on other charges. At the request of the Probation Officer an order was made that Osborne was not to enter the city shopping area unaccompanied. .