TEMPTED AND FELL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 122, 25 May 1936, Page 8

TEMPTED AND FELL

WIFE’S SECRET REVEALED When a woman, who tried to conceal from her husband that she had been caught shoplifting for a second time, appeared at Marylebone, London, recently, her secret was revealed. She is Kathleen Chapman, aged 31, of Bexley, Kent, who confessed that, after having been fined £5 at Canterbury, for shop-lifting, she had again succumbed to temptation, and had stolen wearing apparel, worth £1 6s 2d, from a West End store. Detective IDocherty said the woman pleaded when arrested: “Please don’t tell my husband: I promised not to do it aga : n.” Alagistrate: Does her husband know? Detective Docherty replied that she was bailed out after her arrest, and had apparently not told him. “She has a terrible fear that her husband will learn of this second lapse,” lie added. The magistrate decided the matter could not be kept from the husbana any longer, and ordered him to be sent for. The husband later attended, and begged the magistrate to be lenient for the sake of their child. “I have tried all I can to prevent this happening again,” lie said. “Aly wife came up to London to meet a friend from the country, and apparently walked round this store and succumbed to temptation. She is a good wife and mother.” The magistrate remanded the woman for a month, and said he would accept her husband’s surety in £lO for her good behaviour in the meantime.