GIRL JEWEL THIEF

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22142, 22 June 1935, Page 10 (Supplement)

GIRL JEWEL THIEF

STRANGE GLASGOW CASE An eightcen-ycar-okl girl, described by the prosecutor in Glasgow Sheriff Court as an ardent church worker, admitted the theft of nearly 200,000 articles of jewellery from a city warehouse. The stolen property was said to bo worth £309i3, and had been disposed of to a Jewish resetter in the Gorbais district. Her sentence of two months' imprisonment was dated from her arrest on March 1.3, and she left tho court free. The girl was Elizabeth Hean Hill, and she was accused of acting with William Graham Sloan and Mrs. Margaret Cowan in stealing the articles. They pleaded guilty. Mr. J. D. Strathern, the fiscal, said Hill was employed by a wholesale warehouse as principal assistant in the jewellery department. Jewellery orders were mostly received by post, and it was her job to make up and despatch the parcels. " She began a practice of collecting large quantities of goods which had not been ordered," Mr. Strathern added. " Tho girl received twenty-one shillings a week as wages, and was handing £.'3 to £4 a week to her mo.ther, accounting for it as commission and bonuses. " It is extraordinary that practically all the money she got. went to the household. There is no suggestion that she was spending it in any other way." Sloan and Cowan were sentenced to five months from their arrest on March 13.