THEFTS FROM SHOPS
DBA PER 8' ASSISTANTS CHARGED., Three girls and a young married woInnn, employed an assistants in drapers' shops in Cuba Street, were charged beiore Mr. W. G. Uiddell, S.M., at the Mngisl.rale'.-j Court yesterday with having stolen various articles of drapery belonging to their employers. Tho names of the accused wore Doris Bustin, Cecilia llanner, Eileen Bruton, and Bertha Evans. Bustin, Harmer, and Evans were of having stolen goods belonging "to Joseph Llewellyn Evans, and Bruton ivith having taken a .pair of stockings, ■the property of Barry, aud Shako 3. •lvrans was- also charged with having reteived a pair of gloves from Bustin, as well ns other articles from Harmer, 'knowing Hint they had been dishonestly obtained. Mr. P. W. Jackson appeared for Bustin. All the accused pleaded guilty. The period in which the offences occurred ranged over the months of March, April, May, and June. Chief-Detective Boddam, who prosecuted, eaid the property had been recovered. There was nothing previously known against Ihe accused. Mr. Jackson asked for leniency for thefiirl Buatin, who, he said,- had neither father-nor mother. .Accused had probably yielded to a temptation, being joung and inexperienced. She had expressed sorrow lor her conduct. It km stuted that Bustin earned 353. per week, Evans 235., Harmer 355., and Bruton liss.
His Worship .-aid the accused were in receipt of n fair amount of wages. They wero pursuing a career that would (inly land them in trouble. "Although you may bo able to avoid detection for a certain length of time, you are bound to be detected in the long run," he added. 'This sort of thing cannot go on. You ought to know as well m I do that honesty is Die best policy. You can earn quite sufficient to keep yourselves without robbing your employers. Inasmuch as yim iiro first offenders/ and owing to the" fact that th. , articles have been recovered.- Iha Court will givu you a chance."
The accused wero ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, and wero ordered to report to the probation officer for a period of f.ix months.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 245, 4 July 1918, Page 7
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353THEFTS FROM SHOPS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 245, 4 July 1918, Page 7
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