SHOPLIFTER SENTENCED.
WOMAN IMPRISONED. Wanganui, November 30. Flora Ellen Williams appeared in the Magistrate’s Court this morning, having pleaded guilty yesterday- to shoplifting. The Magistrate (Mr J. S. Barton, S.M.) said that the Probation Officer had not been able to recommend probation. He (the Magistrate) had gone carefully into the matter, and had given it painful thought, and he had found no principles governing the application of probation to bring this matter within the scope to justify it. Crime committed for the first time might be impulsive, but in that instance they had a series of thefts, spread over a long period. The Magistrate then referred to the three kinds of offences which were too common, namely bicycle stealing by men, pillaging from cargo by transport workers and unfortunately, shoplifting by women. Offenders could not have a single warning in each case. Accused was then sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment with hard labour.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3570, 2 December 1926, Page 4
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153SHOPLIFTER SENTENCED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3570, 2 December 1926, Page 4
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