Detective Office Like Department Store

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 40, 17 February 1938, Page 5

Detective Office Like Department Store

MAN AND WOMAN ARRESTED A reporter on inquiries who walked into the detective office of the Palmerston North Police Station yesteninv found the floor filled with a miscellany of goods in such quantity as to make the room resemble a departmental store. They had been taken to the detective office from a room occupied by Margaret Mattheson Scott Hart, a married woman, 38 yearsof age, who made an appearance before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court charged with the theft at Pahiatua of a pair of silk stockings valued at 7s Cd and 34 books valued at £2, the property of G. H. Bennett and Co., Palmerston North. Detective-Sergeant Meiklejohu asked for a remand until Monday next, stating that the accused would then be charged with the theft of a large quantity obtained by systermatic shop-lift-ing.

Mr G. N. Rowe, counsel for accused, in applying for bail, said she had made a clean breast of the facts to the police. His Worship granted both applications, the bail being fixed at £SO to be found by accused herself and an additional security of £SO.

Edward Rj’an, labourer, aged 37, faced charges of having received from the first accused a pair of shoes valued at 17s fid, two pairs of pyjamas and one shirt valued at 27s 6d, w r ell knowing that they had been dishonestly obtained.

In this case a remand till Monday next was also granted with bail in the same amounts.