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“LED SON INTO CRIME” “I am firmly convinced from my inquiries that this is a case of the mother leading her son into crime,” stated Detective-Sergeant Stockley at Brentford, when Mrs Mary Ellen Ridgley, aged 58, of Teddington. Middlesex, was charged with receiving a bicycle. She was fined £l, with the alternative of one month’s imprisonment. Sergeant Stockley alleged that Ridgley stated she had bought the bicycle for 15/- from a man at a public-house, and wheeled it home. Her 14-year-old son, however, stated that he stole the cycle from a car park at a local zoo.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21560, 24 January 1940, Page 8
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