“SHEER VANITY”
WOMAN STOLE FOX FUR “You stole through vanity—sheer vanity,” remarked' the chairman of magistrates at South End, England, to Mrs Mary Goldberg, aged'29, of Stoke Newington, in fining her £5 for the theft of a fox fur and diamond ring from an apartment house, where she stayed during a holiday. It was stated that Mrs Goldberg gave a wrong name and address to the apartment housekeeper. .When she was interviewed by a detective, she stated: “I must have, been mad. AH the others had nice things to wear. Some-get caught, some don't.' lam one of the unlucky ones. I gave a different name and address because I thought it sounded better.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23707, 14 January 1939, Page 18
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