THEFT OF MILLINERY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20405, 6 November 1929, Page 14

THEFT OF MILLINERY.

CONVICTION ENTERED.

A chargo of stealing four hats, a quantity of ribbon and other trimming, of a total value of .CG 18s 'ld, was preferred against Jane Henrietta Budd, aged 41, in the Police Court, yesterday. Mr. Hall Skelton stated that the facts would |je admitted, but (lie woman would enter a plea of not guilty. Counsel said accused's husband was caretaker of the buildings, in which one of the tenants carried on a lint shop. She had disappeared, leaving ;i number of hats in an empty room. They were lying oil the floor, while the door was not even closed. After she had been away for some weeks accused took one ot the hats for her child, taking several other articles later. Accused stated that she thought the owner was not returning, and that the goods had been left. Chief-Detective Hammond remarked that the accused, as wife of the caretaker of the building, should have been careful about property lying in rooms in the building, although there was no question that the tenant had been indifferent about her business. Accused was convicted and ordered'to come up for sentence if called on within six months, an order being made for the re,turn of the goods. The magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, refused an application for the suppression of accused's name.