THEFTS FROM SHOP
DANISH SEAMAN SENTENCED. WIFE PLACED ON PROBATION. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, August 16. In sentencing a Danish seaman, Bjorn Hansen, to three months’ imprisonment on one charge of shoplifting and ordering him to come up if called on within 12 months on three others, Mr. E. W. Mosley, S.M., remarked that a considerable amount of this petty stealing was going on in various towns in New Zealand, especially in the main centres. There was difficulty in detecting it, and when detected adequate punishment ought to he meted out to the perpetrators. Hansen’s wife was placed on probation for theft and ordered to come up If called upon on charges of receiving.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1935, Page 7
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