SHOPLIFTING CHARGES.
MAGISTRATE’S LENIENCY. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 4. An exhibit in Court to-day was an overcoat with the lining and pockets specially cut to facilitate shoplifting. The owner, Alfred James Smith, aged 50, a labourer, was convicted on nine charges of stealing from various shops goods valued at over £B. The Magistrate said the difficulty about the case was the number of offences and the fact that the overcoat showed they were deliberate. He had good reports about. Smith, However, and because a long term of imprisonment would be a hardship on his wife and children the sentence would be one of two weeks’ imprisonment.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 210, 4 August 1934, Page 8
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107SHOPLIFTING CHARGES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 210, 4 August 1934, Page 8
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