SHOPLIFTING.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1926, Page 1

SHOPLIFTING.

[BY TELEOUArH - PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Aug. 2. An application was made to-day lor the suppression of the name of Elizabeth Clark, a married woman, aged 31 (for whom Mr Cahill appeared). She was charged with lour counts of shoplifting. Tho application was refused by Mr G. W. Poynton, S.M., in the Police Court. The charges related to articles of clothing ami toilet requisites, the property of Milne and Choyce, Ltd. Mr Cahill asked for bail at 100 pounds. Mr Cahill also requested the suppression of the name, stating the accused was married, and her husband would probably lose bis employment if bis employers lenrued of the charges against his wile.

Chief Detective Cummings said : “This woman went about shop-lilting with about £6O in her possession. Surely, Your AVorship will not suppress her name?” - Mr Cali ill said that if the accused’s name were published, the punishment would fall on her husband. The publication of her name wonlid not convey anything to other shopkeepers in the city, and would not serve any useful purpose. The Magistrate:—“Oil, that excuse would bo urged in every case.” Detective Cummings said the employers of accused’s husband were sympathetic in their treatment, ot their employees, and lio did not think they would dismiss him. The Magistrate said that shoplifting had become so common that a rule had been made that the offenders’ names could not l>e suppressed. The alleged offences extended over a period of about two months. Tho application could not bo granted. ANOTHER CASE. AUCKLAND. Aug. 2. A remand until next Monday was to-dav granted in the case Leonie MacMalion, aged 23, charged with stealing !a navy blue georgette gown, valued at £l9 10s 6d, the property of Rendolls Ltd. Bail was fixed at £SO.

NIGHT CLUB CURFEAV.

NEAA r A'ORK, June 10.

Mi- Walker. Mayor of New York, lias ordered the olosiug'of all night clubs at 2 a.m. Though night clubs are only licensed till 1 a.m., they remain open and crowded until the breakfast hour. Cabaret owners are meeting in conference to-night to protest against Mr Walker’s curfew order. They say they do not object to closing at 3 a.m. Meanwhile the authorities, on the recommendation of a jury of citizens have taken action against theatres where plays offensive to good morals are produced. They have ordered the withdrawal of “ The Bunk of 1926 and the expurgation of “The . Great Temptation.” The Actors’ Equity Association supports the action of the authorities and has notified the players in “The Bunk'of 1926” that they must cease tlieir performances. The Public Prosecutor states that actors and actresses in several plays under investigation liave complained bitterly to him that the parts assigned to them are lowering the standard of the stage profession.

ELOPEMENT ENDED BY AIR

LONDON, June 13.

How an elopement was frustrated by the use of a 100-miles-an-hour aeroplane became known yesterday at the London air station, Croydon. The other- morning a motor-car drove at great speed throgli the aerodrome •mtewav, and the passenger wlio alighted chartered from Imperial Airways a special aeroplane to fiv him to a seaside resort on the east coast. On alighting at the seaside resort the passenger hurried to the railway station and awaited the arrival of a train from London. As a gill an a man got out of the train the air passenger. who was the girl’s father, went up to them and appealed. to Ins daughter to leave her companion. This sell oventuallv consented to do. and the man left discomfited upon the platform. . , The father, leaving nothing to chance, then insisted that his daughter should fly hack to London with him in the waiting aeroplane.