SHOPLIFTING

Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1930, Page 1

SHOPLIFTING

WOMAN SENT TO GAOL. (By Telegraph—Press Association) AUCKLAND, December 4. In sentencing a woman aged fiftyfive to one month’s imprisonment on shoplifting charges, Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M. remarked at the Police Court this morning that accused was making a bus'ness of shoplifting. Accused was Mary Smith, described as a dressmaker. She pleaded guilty to three charges of stealing various articles of a total value of 19s 2d on November 21, December 2 and 3, from a large city store. She was a divorced woman and had once previously been before the Court when she was fined £4O for carrying on the business of a bookmaker. She had a leather bag with her and a black frock. Tlie frock contained a large inside pocket fitted with wdoden handles. “Just the thing for a shoplifter,” sa : d Mr Hunt. “I never had it at all,” said the woman. “£o found on me 1 had received from my brother in Tasmania to help pay my fare across there.” Mr Hunt: You admit stealing on three different occasions from the stores and you are found with a dress with a secret pocket. You evidently made a business of shoplifting. One month’s imprisonment.