GIRL OF 14 USED TO CLOAK WOMAN’S THEFTS
“This horrible practice is becoming somewhat general among shoplifters of a certain sort,” said Mr. St. John Hutchinson a,t London Sessions, when he prosecuted a married woman who, it was stated, committed certain thefts with the aid of her daughter, aged 14. The woman, Emily Wanstall, 47, was accused of stealing and receiving two pyjama jackets and other articles. She was bound over. Mr. Hutchinson said that when the woman was searched there were found upon her and her daughter the proceeds of theft from eight different departments. “She used the daughter not only to cloak her own thefts, but also to steal,” he added. Mr. Wanstall said his wife, who had five children, had been ill on and off since 1918, and had recently been rather strange in her behaviour. “The most deplorable part of your conduct,” said Sir Robert Wallace, K.C., to the woman, ‘‘is your bringing a young daughter into a position of this kind, and to know that you are deliberately using her to cloak your own thefts. lam satisfied that you were not responsible for your actions on that day.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 617, 20 March 1929, Page 11
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193GIRL OF 14 USED TO CLOAK WOMAN’S THEFTS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 617, 20 March 1929, Page 11
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