WOMAN SHOPLIFTER

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 105, 28 January 1935, Page 14

WOMAN SHOPLIFTER

Goods Discovered in Home Detected stealing articles from James Smith’s at 6.40 p.m. on Friday, Ada Firth, a widow, aged 50, admitted in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, on Saturday morning a series of similar offences. She was fined £2, in default 14 days’ imprisonment, for stealing goods valued at 14/2 from James Smith, Ltd., £l/10/-, in default seven days’ imprisonment, for stealing goods valued at 12/11 from Whitehead and Pears, Ltd., £1 10/- in default seven days’ imprisonment, for stealing goods valued at 8/from Evans and Co.,’ Ltd., and £l/10/-, in default seven days’ imprisonment, for stealing goods valued at 2/11 from Woolworths (N.Z.), Ltd. Detective-Sergeant T. Y. Hall said that after the discovery in Janies Smith’s a search of the woman’s home revealed most of the articles mentioned, and they had been identified by the firms. She was a laundress earning 28/- a week, and in 1913 had been before the court on four charges of theft. Thomas Joseph Noon, aged 42. a labourer, and Thomas Hudson, aged 33, a seaman, who fought each other in Tory Street, were fined 10/- each, in default three days’ imprisonment. William Laurence Bowler, aged 45. a labourer, was fined £l, in default seven days’ imprisonment, for drunkenness, and Thomas Williams was imprisoned for three weeks for drunkenness.