SHOPLIFTERS’ BANK BALANCE
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER. LONDON, September 5. A mother and daughter who had been living on the proceeds of wholesale shoplifting, appeared before the Windsor magistrates yesterday. The Chief Constable said that nearly every grocer’s shop in the town had been visited by the accused. It was not a case of their being in want, for a bank-book was found showing they had a credit balance of £ 176, while the mother was in receipt of a small pension, as well. Accused were Jane Alice Jenner and Patricia Jenner, of Grove-road, Windsor.
The chairman said that it was a scandalous thing that, having so much money in the bank, they should have behaved in this way. Each woman would be sentenced to six months hard labour, and Jane Alice Jenner would be fined £5O or an extra three months, and the daughter would be fined .£25 or an extra three months. Jane Alice Renner was to pay the costs of the case, and all the property .was to be handed back to the shipkeepers. A long table placed in front of the magistrates was loaded" with groceries, dresses, shoes, and a variety of other articles which had been stolen. Hhe Chief Constable said that the women’s practice was to go shopping, carrying a large black bag. They purchased some small article for a penny or two and then proceeded to steal all the articles they could lay their hands on while the shopkeeper’s back was turned. The women had been living in a house rent free, in return for small services rendered to the owner, who was an invalid.
Jane Alice Jenner was arrested in the act of stealing three pairs of stockings from a shop in St. Leonards Road, Windsor, and when detectives visited Jenners’s home they found a room packed with stolen articles. The Court was asked by Jane Alice Jenner to take into consideration all the seventeen charges in which she was implicated.
The Chief Constable said that the arrested some money was found on Jane Alice Jenner, which she admitted represented the proceeds of the sale of stolen goods which had not been traced-
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 October 1931, Page 10
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359SHOPLIFTERS’ BANK BALANCE Greymouth Evening Star, 28 October 1931, Page 10
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