MANY THEFTS BY WOMAN
MONEY TAKEN FROM OFFICES. THREE YEARS’ PROBATION GIVEN. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Since last August the Auckland police have had many complaints of thefts from offices by persons invariably described as a woman in a grey coat. Last Tuesday they located her, and in the Police Court to-day Jessie Russell, aged 29, a knitter, unmarried, admitted eleven charges of theft of handbags, money, jewellery and cheques of a total value of £lOl 14s.
The police said the money had been stolen in amounts ranging from 7s to £lB 18s, and included an amount of £l7, the life savings of a charwoman. Russell’s method was to loiter about offices, slip through an open door and steal handbags, or even steal from safes. In defence it was stated the woman had been partly unemployed and had spent the money in living. - Her relatives would repay the charwoman. After fervent appeals from two counsel the magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, granted Russell three years’ probation on strict conditions.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 April 1934, Page 7
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