“TOOK HIS FANCY”
j SHOP ARTICLES POCKETED. CULPRIT LET OFF LIGHTLY. fPer Press Association.—Comiriaht 1 WELLINGTON. This Day Stated by counsel to be now just able to get about after injuries suffered from a bicycle accident and to have been treated at various hotels by friends yesterday, William Mark Barker aged 40 tramway conductor, went into Woolworths’ shop in Willis Street and pocketed various articles winch counsel said took his fancy but which were of no use to him They were mostly soaps, powders and creams and other articles used by women. He was detected and searci?When Barker came before the court yesterday counsel said that a conv ctmn would carry far more pSthan that inflicted by the couS The magistrate said that ft was ) fluite right that it should. He would only impose a fine of £9 48 ni ing allowed for paymt.lt I defa ul i l?e £ neroUa C y C s USed '™'“ S-
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Northern Advocate, 10 July 1935, Page 6
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