SHOPLIFTER SENTENCED
WOMAN IMPRISONED. Wanganui, November 30. Flora Ellen Williams appeared in the Magistrate’s Court this morning, having pleaded guilty yesterday to shoplifting. The Magistrate, Mr J. S. Barton, S.M., said that the Probation Officer had not been able’ to recommend probation. He (tile Magistrate) had gone carefully into the matter and had given it painful thought, and be had found no principles governing the application of probation to bring this matter with in the scope to justify it. Crime committed for tiie first time might be impulsive, but in that instance they had a series of thefts, spread over, a long period. The Magistrate then referred to the three kinds of offences which were too common, namely, bicvcle stealing by men, pillaging from cargo by transport workers, and, unfortunately, shoplifting by women. Offenders could not have a single warning in each case. Accused was then sentenced to Li days’ imprisonment, with hard labour.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 57, 1 December 1926, Page 6
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154SHOPLIFTER SENTENCED Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 57, 1 December 1926, Page 6
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