OFFER BY SHOPLIFTER
"j KNOW HOW IT'S DONE” A typist, and the daughter of a Sussex farmer, who was caught shoplifting on a wholesale scale in an Ox-ferd-street store, is alleged to have said: “Can I become a detective until the end of January’ without payment. as I know how it is done?” Ulis was revealed at Marylebone Fclice-couit recently, when Jeanne Maxstead. 2S. of Cuckfield, Sussex, pleaded guilty to the theft of fiftytwo articles. ' . The articles, the prosecution alleged, were taken from thirteen different departments, and were found in a large carrier supplied by the store. When apprehended by the store detective, and having confessed her guilt, defendant offered her services as a detective. Mr. Bingley described the c.Ase as “eno of wholesale looting.” He fined defendant. £5, with 5 guineas costs, the alternative being two months’ imprison nient.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 February 1934, Page 8
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