SHOP GIRL’S TEMPTATION

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8349, 8 February 1913, Page 15

SHOP GIRL’S TEMPTATION

FASCINATED BY PEETTINESS OF THINGS SHE STOLE. EMPLOY Ell’S PLEA. LONDON, December 29. "All I can niiy as to why i took tho things is that I was fascinated by their niemuoss and wished to possess them for myself," said Maud .bass, aged twentysix, when charged at Windsor with stealing goods to the value of -£25 from her employers. ...The missing articles were found in the prisoner’s .boxes. She admitted immediateiy that she had taken them 1 , and said she was overcome by a desire to possess nice things. ChiefConstable Carter said tho accused had also falsified the hooks and prices with the view of showing a better return for her department —women’s underclothing—tnan it had actually been making. Mr Caley, the girts employer, appealed to the magistrates for leniency on her behalf. She had lost her situation and her references, and he thought he could say she had almost broken tho hearts of her father and mother. If it were possible, instead of expiating her offence in prison, it should be left to the working of her heart and conscience, and they would find that justice had been done. The magistrates passed a sentence of three months’ imprisonment in the second division.