The Latest Dodge.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 140, 21 May 1883, Page 3

The Latest Dodge.

[Wellington Paper] Anew kind of impudent robbery has been invented m Wellington by certain 1 females of ill-repute. The plan is for . three oVlour to enter a shop where some young man r is m charge, and begin coaxing and tempting him. Thon some handy articles are taken up, and the young man is chaffed into ; : a sort of bargain, to the effect *^ dt ne w » ntß paying for them he can call at the girls' „ place of abode. They carry away the articles, and the young shopman has to choose between a disagreeable exposure jofthe trick before a Magistrate or : > keeping a guilty silence pn ; the transaction. A case of this kind came before . the Resident Magiutrate yesterday. ; Kellie Shepherd and Mary Sullivan ; , were charged with stealing two small .''baskets and, a book from the. shop, of Mr H. Sunglen, m Manners-street,; on the X^renous day, Samuel Short,;,. aged 'I':, about ,lß,. was m the . shop w.hen four '* l?irls entered, the prispnerfii being I '^t^^jlieni.. ; i'Th^ larked with him in--1 the shop, and carried off, the articles mentioned. Their defence was of ithe nature indicated above, <bnt the youth xn&rmecf a constable of the theft, and the*ttiole i s were graced to the possession /ot tb^ 'two prißpneTS. They called their s tWo companions to confirm their ! immoral excuse, The . Magistrate said *" this was no defence at all, beqause if it ' Were taue, the girls were accessories to a robbery of the young man's employer. *= Sentenced teach to seven days' imprispn^inentwith hard labor. j