THEFT OF HANDBAGS.
WOMAN SENT TO GAOL. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 0. Admitting six charges of theft of handbags, involving £3O, Alice Beatrice Tootell, aged 38, a married woman, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment by the Magistrate, Mr Mosley. The police said that the woman s practice was to go to the showroom of a drapery firm and poke about trying on a hat or a coat and wait her chance while someone else was being served. She would then pick up a customer’s bag and make off. She was caught through tendering a cheque at a shop from a bag which she had previously stolen. This cheque had been stopped and so she was apprehended. In many cases bags were taken from people who could ill afford to lose them The woman admitted burning bags and keeping the money. She was a married woman with/ five children and had not been before the Court
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 210, 6 August 1931, Page 8
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157THEFT OF HANDBAGS. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 210, 6 August 1931, Page 8
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