[?]OYING IN POVERTY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 314, 30 August 1932, Page 5

[?]OYING IN POVERTY

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Vancouver, August 28. ^anguay, the famous vaudeis dying in Los Angeles iart trouble. Jccumulated a fortune of but to-day is almost penni-

or a Mr. Jones. Her reason for going into James Smith's was to let her little girl see a "Miclcey Mouse" entertainment that was then being given. When the general manager, Mr. Alex. Smith, came to the office, she told him that she had purchased the articles from George and Doughty's. The witness was questioned by the Magistrate as to why she had not immediately told Mr. King that she had purchased the articles from George and Doughty's. Mrs Paris replied that she was indignant at the time and did not feel called upon to do so. Cliarges Denied Counsel for James Smith, Ltd., said that the defence denied the assault and also that the plaintiff was detained or that her deparure from the office was in any way prevented. Likewise, it was denied that the articles were talcen from her. The evidence for the defence was that she had handed them over voluntarily and had agreed to their being handed back to George and Doughty's. _ In evidence taken on commission, Mr. Alex Smith, managing director of James Smith, Ltd., said that when he was called to Mr. King's office on the afternoon of Deeember 23, he saw Mrs. Paris. Her bag and various articles were on the table. They were a pair of bloomers, two fancy pin cushions, a pair of men's socks, and a tie. Witness asked her where these articles came from, and she said they were given to her by a Mr. Simpson. She later said that the goods came from George and Doughty's, and agreed to Mr. King returning- them .Witness said that the door of the office was open, and Mrs. Paris made no request to leave while he was present. No threats of any kind were used to induce her to say where the goods had come from or for any other purpose. Charles Alfred King, who also had his evidence taken on commission, said that about 4 p.m. on Deeember 23 a well-lcnown customer, Mrs. Carberry, went to him and said: "There is a woman over there who has taken a pair of stockings. She put them inside her coat, afterwards talcing them out and putting them in the bag she is carrying.'' Witness followed the woman and lcept her under continual observation until she left the shop. Witness said he spoke to Mrs. Paris outside the shop door and after she had shown him what was in her bag asked her to go with him to the office. She went willingly. Witness then described the conversation that took place in the office. Mrs. Paris, he said, would be in the office for twenty minutes at the outside. He denied that he had touched the plaintiff at any time. Customer' s Evidence Mrs Mary Carberry stated in evidence that she had seen Mrs. Paris remove a pair of stockings from a table and place them inside her coat. She told an assistant what she had seen, and, after pointing out Mrs. Paris to Mr. King, left the shop. Alfred Flavell, a salesman who was employed in James Smith's men's department at the time of the incidnnt, said that he remembered a lady coming through the men's department on the afternoon of Deeember 23. She was preceded by Mr. King and was followed by a little girl. She went into Mr. King's office and remained there for about twenty minutes. Mr. King did not have hold of the woman. The Magistrate (Mr. E. Page) reserved his decision.