WOMAN IMPRISONED FOR SHOPLIFTING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 68, 22 March 1939, Page 8

WOMAN IMPRISONED FOR SHOPLIFTING

IGNORED LENIENCY OFFENDED WHILE ON PROBATION. [ Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, March 21. A married woman who had previously been convicted on three occasions for theft and who committed three shoplifting offences while still on probation, was sent to prison by Mr. Orr-Walker, S.M., in the Police Court. She was Nellie Josephine Magill, aged 34, and she pleaded guilty to three charges of stealing on March 17 a variety of articles. The magistrate said Magill had been admitted to probation for two years last August, when she was convicted on four charges of theft. Evidently this had not succeeded in keeping her away from temptation. In 1929 she had been convicted and ordered to come up for sentence for theft. Then, in 1934, on three charges she was again given another chance. “And now she is in trouble again,” said the magistrate. “She is flouting the law and conditions of her probation, so I do not propose to pass this over. Her children can be looked after and on that condition I am going to impose a short term of imprisonment.” Magill was sentenced to two weeks in prison.