KLEPTOMANIA?

NZ Truth, Issue 1146, 17 November 1927, Page 9

KLEPTOMANIA?

Womairs Shoplifting Expedition

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Auckland Rep.) As a shoplifter, Anna Mills, aged ' . 40, a married woman, selected a multifarious assortment of articles that took the clerk several minutes to read when she was charged with theft at the Auckland Police Court last week. "JYURING. the , past six months there *"^ has been a good deal of shoplifting, and m consequence of complaints the accused was kept under | surveillance," stated Chief- Detective Cummings m laying the charges, i which involved goods from five different firms and totalling a value of nearly £40. The chief-detective intimated that a quantity of other articles had been found at Mrs. Mills' house, but none of the firms was able to identify them as stolen property. Lawyer Inder appeared for Mrs. Mills and pleaded guilty. He asked Magistrate Page to take into consideration the fact that his client had not been the same mentally since she had <liHiiHiniiiiiiiniNiiininnuiii»iiinii«iiiHiiiii»i»initH<MiiiiiiuiiitiniHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiuitimiiiii UHtinHiiiitinuHiriimiiiiiiiiiimiiHiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiniiiiiintimTiiuinimiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiin