YOUNG COUPLE VICTIMISED

Otago Witness, Issue 3618, 17 July 1923, Page 16

YOUNG COUPLE VICTIMISED

IMPUDENT THEFT BY WOMEN. AUCKLAND, July 12. A young married couple who arrived from England on June 15 had an eventful ve- option on the morning after landing. They awoke at 6 o’clock to lind a frowsv-100-king woman sitting on the end of their bed in the boarding-house wearing the wife s hat and coat. The wife’s brother was also a lictim of the light-fingered intruder. Masonic papers, a military discharge, and £2 3s m money were missing from his pcckets. Outside in the passage another frowsy-looking woman was hovering abort A search revealed the missing papers and money, but the young couple were less fortunate, for their luggage tickets had disappeared. Three cays later the frowsy woman and another presented the tickets at the railway station, but the official was suspicious, with the result that this morning the magistrate, Mr W. R. M'Kean, S.M., sentenced Julia Griffin, aged 33, the woman who had been sitting on the bed, and Elizabeth Wilson Carswell, aged 39, each io one • ••'--tVs imprisonment for attempting to steal luggage to the value of £2O. Griffin was also sentenced to one month (the sentences to run concurrently) for haying stolen boots and shirts valued at £2 10s, Die property or a person unknown, and for the theft of a cash box valued at £2 9s 6d, and four blankets valued at £5.