PETTY SHOPLIFTING

Evening Star, Issue 21006, 21 January 1932, Page 11

PETTY SHOPLIFTING

WELL-TO-DO WOMAN ARTICLES OF LITTLE VALUE. That she stole articles of practically no value which she did not want was said of a well-to-do woman of Harrow when she appeared before a London magistral o accused of stealing a bottle of nail varnish, a necklace, and two rings, value 2s Gd, from a shop in Oxford street A detective stated that while her finger-prints ■ were being taken defendant said, “ I didn’t mean to steal them Will you send for my husband ? He will understand what made me do it.”

Counsel for defendant stated that she had had twenty-one years of perfect happiness with her husband, a professional man in a good position, to whom the country owed a debt of gratitude, On this particular day she was to haw lunched with her husband, but she missed him, and she went shopping by herself. Then, for some inexplicable reason, she took these articles. They were articles ol no value to her— she would not think of wearing them or of giving them away. ' Nobody could understand why she , had done it Slip had suddenly committed an act which she had never contemplated. The magistrate fined defendant £3, and advised her to keep away from stores where goods wore so conveniently displayed.