LADIES' BAGS

Evening Star, Issue 16990, 12 March 1919, Page 5

LADIES' BAGS

Arretted at Whiteley's Stores, London, and sentenced at Maxylebone to three mouths' bar-! labor for theft, Louisa Mbrtlake, 56, a widow, of Cambridge terrace, Hyde Park, was found to have a large black bag holding the following- good* which ehe had stolen:Four eggs, silk scarf, two pairs socks, one pair stockings, two tins pottedl mea 1 -., cake of soap, three tina sardines, two cakes, box of cigarettes, tobacco pouch, four ladies' collars, two books, silv:jr frame, four «rticlen, china soap dish, brush, pair of eye-glasses. Mr C. V. Hill, prosecuting, said the articles were loose in the bag, aid Lad been stolen from at least 10 different departments in tho store. She was first seen to take some eggo, and was followed from one department to another. When arrested she pist the ba# dc-im and disowned it, but afterwards admitted the thefts. Elizabeth Moore, 38, and M«ud Waldron, both married, -were aJho sentenced at Marlborough street to sir" months' hard labor for being concents! in the theft of fotn drawuo worth £56, from a shop. It w» stated tbat they were suspected in the shop, awi when searched out-, of them had tb» four 4rttn» ia a big pocket ia her skirt.