BAG THIEF
WOMAN PAYS THE PENALTY,
HUSBAND SENT TO GAOL
(‘By'Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, June 1
Pleading guilty to five charges of theft of handbags' ;containing money from customers inj city shops, Florence May Beatie, married woman, middleaged, was sentenced in the Police Court to one year’s reformative detection. ; Her husband, James Watson Beatie, was sentenced to three months’ gaol on': one charge of receiving £3 from her.
The Magistrate remarked that Beatie must have been aware of his wife’s criminal practice in bringing bags home. The-police stated that there had been repeated complaints, one lady losing a bag containing £l2. They found nineteen, bags at accused’s home, she admitting the theft of thirteen.
I |Tim ago both accused were conducted at Christchurch of thefts irom :clothes lines. On behalf of the female accused it wag stated that there was a-: family of two little girls and the woman had earned respect at organist at St. Mary’s Church, Mornington.
Counsel claimed- that;ahe-.wAs>-aLkle,p*. facts ruled out/the- impulse. -
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1932, Page 6
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