A SHOPLIFTER
THREE i YEARS’ REFORMATIVE
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.'CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 13
I think I am safe in saying, this woman is about the worst thief that has ever apnaared in this court, said the police thiis morning, referring to Lonnie Evelyn McMahon, 29, a bookkeeper, alias Norali Purcell, who pleaded guilty to forty charges nf’ofeUy of shoplifting, and was sentenced to three vears’ reformative.
Magistrate Mosley said a* woman like this, who had no-piicH .sense, was an absolute menace to the community. Goods had been stolen at various Heading shops over a period of eleven months, and handlings were also stolen from two churchgoers in church
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1932, Page 6
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108A SHOPLIFTER Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1932, Page 6
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