WOMAN GAOLED
for shoplifting. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, October 11. Remarking that fines made no impression on shoplifters, the Magistrate, Mr Hunt',, to-day sentenced Gladys Ann Reeve, aged 32 years, a clerk, to fourteen days’ imprisonment for stealing clothing worth £l3. Evidence was . given that the woman went to a department store last evening, and visited several floors, stealing articles from each. She was caught when removing tickets from a garment. When-the police searched her house subsequently, they found articles with the price tickets still on them, but they were unable to prove these were stolen. Despite pleas made by her counsel and by. a Salvation Army officer, the Magistrate declined to inflict a fine. He said:—“The last time I gave a woman imprisonment, we had no shoplifters for months afterwards. The accused will be sentenced to fourteen days. Now you won’t have any more shoplifters for a long time.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1930, Page 3
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151WOMAN GAOLED Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1930, Page 3
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