WOMAN’S THEFTS
TRENCHANT COMMENT FROM BENCH [Special to tub ' Stab.’] * AUCKLAND, December 18. The theft of a handbag, valued at £2 ss, from the Farmers’ Trading Company, and two cushion covers, valued at 11s, from a Newton store, was admitted by Dorothy Isabel Skinner, aged thirty-one. Counsel said that the accused had never been in trouble previously. She had a banking account. The Magistrate (Mr Hunt): “ Well, I will make a hole in that. She is fined £lO. Gaol is tho only thing for these shop-lifters in order to stop them, or else their names should be printed in big block letters. If I were her husband I would not let her out —I would lake her shoes away from her.”
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Evening Star, Issue 20980, 19 December 1931, Page 8
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121WOMAN’S THEFTS Evening Star, Issue 20980, 19 December 1931, Page 8
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