WELL-TO-DO SHOPLIFTER
CFIARTER ED AEROPLANE LONDON, Aug. 6. A woman visitor from the United States, who was charged at the Marvlebone Police Court, and was lined £2O, with £5 5s costs, for shoplifting, inter chartered an aeroplane from Croydon to catch the liner Queen Mary at Cherbourg for New York. She is Mrs. Mildred O’Neill, who w r as on holiday in London with her husband, and she admitted thefts from a West End store. She said that she had two glasses of port and must have been mad, and added that her mother-in-law, was dying. Her night in gaol, and also the time occupied by the prosecution, prevented her from catching the Queen Mary at Southampton, as she had originally intended. The magistrate said that Mrs. O’Neill’s comfortable circumstances aggravated the offence.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19099, 21 August 1936, Page 8
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133WELL-TO-DO SHOPLIFTER Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19099, 21 August 1936, Page 8
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