WELL-TO-DO SHOPLIFTER
DUNEDIN WOMAN’S OFFENCES. TWELVE MONTHS’ PROBATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, March 27. “This offence is very prevalent in Dunedin, the losses of one store in the past 12 months exceeding £800,” stated Detective-Sergeant Doyle in the Police Court to-day, when Sarah Vance, aged 58, a widow in good financial circumstances, pleaded guilty to several charges of shop-lifting. She was detected stealing a bulb, valued at a pennv. Later she admitted that she had been stealing for nine months. Counsel described his client as a rather well-to-do widow with no oc : ension to take these trifling tilings. She was fined £5 and placed on probation for 2 months.!
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 28 March 1935, Page 7
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109WELL-TO-DO SHOPLIFTER Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 28 March 1935, Page 7
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