COSTLY SARDINES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 6, 29 March 1927, Page 9

COSTLY SARDINES

£4 FOP 8D WORTH GROCERY SHOP THEFT It was only a tin of sardines, worth , paltry eightpence, but it took up *arlv three-quarters of an hour of he Magistrate’s Court’s time this horning and cost Helen Katherine Joyes £4. . Mr. Singer. Mrs. Boyes’s counsel, leaded hard for the charge of stealaj the sard in ?s from Hutchinson 3ros.‘ grocery store in Ponsonby Road o be dismissed. He pointed out that Mrs. Boyes ad been a regular customer at the hop for two years, and had always aid cash for everything. Her repuation was beyond nuestion. She was n a delicate state of health, and suf'red from heart trouble. He pleaded that her physical and rental condition put a different as£ct on the case from that alleged y the police. According to the evidence, Mrs. loves hud slipped the tin into her asket while the assistant who had een serving h < “' - away. Sadie Violet Hunt, an assistant, told he court that she saw the incident, nd reported it. When charged with the theft by the lanager and Police- Sergeant Waterian, the accused offered to pay for t, and also offered £ 1 to square the natter up, it was said. In court she could remember nothing about the alleged theft or the ffer to pay. "Just an ordinary case of shopping,” said Mr. McKean, as he nposed the fine mentioned. Ten ays’ imprisonment was the alternate fixed.