"UNDUE TEMPTATION"
THEFT BY WOMAN A CARELESS TRADER (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Oct. 27. "I think in this case the trader is partly responsible. It is putting an undue temptation in a person's way to allow £SO of credit when a simple inquiry in a telephone book would disclose an imposition," said Mr Mazengarb, when defending Fiona Marion King, aged 32, a domestic servant, charged with the theft of a musquash fur coat valued at £SO, the property of C. Smith, Ltd., and two men's suits and a bowler hat of the value of £8 10s. the property of Hallenstein Bros. The police stated that considerable forethought had been shown. The coat was in good order and the expenditure of £3 3s would make it as good as new. When located the man with whom the accused was living was wearing one of the stolen suits. The had been exchanged at a firm's shop at Palmerston North
The accused was admitted to probation, conditional on restitution of £3 3s and £8 10s being made.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23334, 28 October 1937, Page 18
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