PETTY THEFT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 433, 18 January 1933, Page 4

PETTY THEFT

WOMAN WITH £1000 INCOME STEALS TEN SHILLINGS. A woman who said sh'e had an allowanee of £750 a year and a private income of morqf than £250 was fined £10 and costs at Bedford, England, recently for stealing a 10s note from the women's club house at Bedford Golf Club. She was Mrs. Giadys Gibbon, of Chaucer Road, Bedford. Detective Churchill said that he placed a marked note in a bag and left it on the. table in the dressingroo'm. He hid behind a curtain. Mrs. Gibbon went in with' her clubs, and he saw her take the note out of the bag. Mrs. Gibbon was searched by a 'stewardess. The note was found in the heel of someone else's shoe. For the defence, Sir Henry Curtis Bennett, Z.C., said the only means of observation the constahle had was through' a slit in the curtain, and the constahle had adinitted that he could see only the bag on tbe table. There was no evidence that Mrs. Gibbon put the note in the shoe. Mrs. Gibbon, giving evidence, said her husband held' an important position in the East and she was in Bedford for the education Of her two children. On the day of the alleged theft she had £34 in her possession. She denied seeing th'e bag or dropping the note into the shoe. Notice of appeal was given.