GIRL JEWEL THIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22609, 28 June 1935, Page 5

GIRL JEWEL THIEF

STRANGE GLASGOW CASE An 18-year-old girl, described by the prosecutor in Glasgow Sheriff Court as an ardent church worker, admitted the theft of nearly 200,000 article? of jewellery from a city warehouse. The stolen property was said to be worth £3093, and had been disposed of to a Jewish resetter in the Gorbals district. Her sentence of two months' imprisonment was dated from her. arrest on March 13, and she left the 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. "The girl received 21s a week as wages, and was handing £3 to £4 a week to her mother, 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. ■■ :-'. .■■■'•.•.■';.":/.."