PROFESSIONAL SHOPLIFTER IN COURT
- Press Associatfon.)
(By Telegraph-
DUNEDIN, This Day. Facing 12 charges that brought her total convictions to 84, Leonie Evelyn MacMahon, a gmartly dressed woman, aged 34, whom the police dubbed a " prof essional ehoplifter," was sentenced to two years' reformative detention by Mr J. Bartholomew, S.M., All the thefts, which, in the aggregate represented goods worth £105, were committed in one week. Her counsel pleaded that her conduct was governed by an abnormality, for, despite" earlier sentences, she could not resist the impulse to steal. Chief-Detective Young stated that, some years ago, accused held a good position which she lost. Since then she had apparently gone shoplifting. She first appeared at Auckland on 22 charges in 1926, was convieted at Christchurch on 42 charges in 1932, and again at Christchurch in 1935 on eight charges. The Magistrate, in passing sentence, said it was an extraordinary and tragie case of an educated, intelligent woman persisting in the career of crimo, Her case would come before the Prisons Board, when any question of abnormality could be dealt with.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 64, 8 December 1937, Page 5
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