GIRL BURGLARS.
"AN EXTRAORDINARY STATE OF AFFAIRS.” • / • UNUSUAL CASE AT CHRIST- ' CHURCH. Christchurch, May 6. "An extraordinary state«of affairs,” said Mr Bishop, S.M., when two girls aged 17 and 19 respectively, were charged with, burglary at a house at St. Albans.i The girls gave false names, their real ones bring Winifred White end Gertrude Anderson. 'Chief-Detective Herbert, in applying for a remand, said the girls came from Dunedin and took a house at Sydenham, partly furnishing it. They did no work, but took. pa»ytin..various burglaries in the suburbs, where houses wore broken in with axes and shovels, the girls taking away what they could. The younger girl was under the control of the older. They wore wanted on similar charges at MosgieT.
The Magistrate remanded them till Monday week.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 27, 6 May 1916, Page 6
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129GIRL BURGLARS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 27, 6 May 1916, Page 6
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