FOURTEEN DAYS’ GAOL
CASE OF SHOPLIFTING [ Per Pie-»s Association. ] AUCKLAND, March 18. Stated by the magistrate to have been on a stealing expedition, Charles Albert Winstanley, aged 45, watchmaker. was sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment by Mr Wyvern Wilson to-day on a charge of stealing various articles of a value of £3 odd from a city department store. He pleaded guilty. The evidence showed that Winstanley, carrying an unlatched suitcase, came under suspicion when he attempted lo put a lady’s shoe under his coat. The other shoe was found in the suitcase.
The police said that Winstanley was a married man with five children and had been on sustenance for the past eighteen months. “Anyone who goes into a s?iop is on his honour,” said the magistrate. “It is difficult to detect these sneak thieves, and the only way to deal with them is to impose imprisonment.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 66, 19 March 1937, Page 6
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