SHOP-LIFTING.
WOMAN SENT TO GAOL. ' (By T^feraph— Press Association.) WANGANUI, This Day. ™ Flora Ellen Williams, a married woman, aged. 41, -was sentenced to-day to 14 dfcjs with hard labour for a series of offences of shoplifting,.. spread over a period of six months. The amount of goods recovered was approximately £2l, chiefly .drapery. The prisoner carried g. large black hag on her rounds', with a handy open mouth, into which the goods were dropper. In passing sentence, the Magistrate (Mr Barton) referred to three kinds of offences far too common; namely, thefts of bicycles by men, the pillaging,of cargo by transport workers, and, unfortunately, shop-lifting by women. Offenders in these ;cases could not expect a warning in each instance^
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 30 November 1926, Page 5
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