CAUGHT IN THE ACT.
AUCKLAND, Alarch 29. At Hart’s sale yesterday afternoon a girl of 17 was detected in the act of shoplifting. She was arrested by Detective Packman, and appeared before Air W. R. M’Kean, S.M., at the Police Court to-day, when she pleaded guilty .to a charge of having stolen a raincoat, a child’s coat, and a jacket of a total value of £3 4s 6d. Chief Detective Hammond said that the girl had never been in any trouble previously. Her parents were most respectable, and there was no need for her to steal. Her home life was good, and it was difficult to understand why she stole the articles which she placed in a bag. “No doubt it was a ease of sudden temptation,” said Mr Hammond. The accused, whose name was ordered to be suppressed, was remanded for three months, the Magistrate telling, her that if her behaviour was good in the meantime nothing more would be heard of the matter.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3864, 3 April 1928, Page 61
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