SHOPLIFTING FACILITATED
MAN WEARS SPECIAL OVERCOAT.
SHORT TERM OF IMPRISONMENT.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Au/. 4.
An exhibit in the Court to-day was an overcoat with the lining and pockets specially cut to facilitate shoplifting. The owner, Alfred James Smith, aged 50, a labourer, was convicted on nine charges of stealing from various shops goods valued at over £B. The magistrate said 'the difficulty about the case was the number of offences and the fact that the overcoat showed they were deliberate. He had reports about Smith, however, and because a long term of imprisonment would be a hardship on his wife and children sentence would be one of two weeks’ imprisonment.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1934, Page 5
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