PUT POLICE IN SHADE
GIBE DETECTIVE AGED TWELVE. Tbe astuteness of Marjorie Jones, aged twelve, a schoolgirl, of Harehill, Leeds, was responsible for Vera Nall, aged twenty-nine, of Shrewsbury street, Old Tratford, being fined £5 and costs at Blackpool for stealing a purse and contents from the handbag of a woman in Wooiworth’s bazaar. The child detected tho theft and promptly reported it, tho purse being found in Nall’s possession. “By jovc, you are a little champion,” exclaimed the chief constable (Mr Durham) after tho girl had given evidence. “ She puis the police in tho shade. He asked her which would she have, a ring of a wristlet watch as a present. “A ring,” she said, “and I will wear it on my second finger.” “Then yon shall have one of gold,” said the chief constable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19662, 15 September 1927, Page 16
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136PUT POLICE IN SHADE Evening Star, Issue 19662, 15 September 1927, Page 16
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