SHOPLIFTING
THREE AVOMEN SENTENCED
1 Per Press Association — Copyrght. /
AUCKLAND, April 22
Three women were sentenced to-day to one month’s imprisonment each for shoplifting. They were Iris Alma Jones, 24 years of age, Dorothy Eileen Cripps, 24, and Irene Beryl Newport, <27.
The Magistrate .said that the whole of the circumstances led him to believe that there had been a raid iby these women on shops in the city. One had a pr:,m outside and some of the goods were put into it. For one woman, it was pleaded that ,she had been 'deserted by her husband and was unable to get work to maintain herself and her child.
The Magistrate: There are plenty of charitable institutions, people h-ave no need to steal through poverty.
In parsing sentence, the Magistrate said that there had been a noticeable increase in larceny and the law muse be strongly administered. Imprisonment was the only thing likely t 0 stop shoplifting.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1933, Page 2
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157SHOPLIFTING Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1933, Page 2
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