WOMAN SHOPLIFTER
QUICK CHANGE OF HATS
AUCKLAND, December 11
“This is the woman who went in one door of a shop with a red hat on, and came out of the other door wearing a white hat,” said Detective ;‘Sergeant O’Sullivant in the Police Court when Martha. Tainui, aged 49, domestic, Dleaded guilty to six charges of the theft of goods of a total value of £8 .ws 6d from city stores. Mr O’Sullivan added t v at the police lin'd found a large accumulation of goods at her house. “I had received had news and I started drinking heavilv,” said accused. “I must have taken the goods, but I do not remember anything about it.”
“You have been doing, this kind of thing or 10 or 15 years,”, said the magistrate,'. Mr. F. K. Hunt. S.M., in sentencing.accused to six months’ imprisonment on each of two charges, the sentences to he ./cumulative, and convicting and discharging her on the remainder.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1933, Page 7
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161WOMAN SHOPLIFTER Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1933, Page 7
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