SHOP-LIFTING
MAGISTERIAL LENIENCY. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, November 13. Mary Madeline Jessie Thompson, 35, and Ada May Edgecomb, 45, two married women, both employed as domestics, admitted extensive and systematic thefts from city shops. At the Police Court they jointly pleaded guilty of stealing goods valued at £lO5. Mrs Edgecombe alone to theft of goods valued at £3B. ' When Mrs Edgecombe’s house was searched, stolen goods worth £l4O were found there. But for the fact that one of the accused was in ill health, Magistrate Hunt said he would have sentenced both to two years’ imprisonment. Edgecombe was fined £4O and Thompson £2O, ten days being allowed to pay.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 November 1928, Page 6
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