Line 0.0.0 "HAD NO COUPONS"

Line 0.0.1 WOMAN'S REASON FOR THEFT

Line 0.0.2 Lack of clothing coupons

Line 0.0.3 prompted Mrs. Gladys Esther

Line 0.0.4 Heinke (40) to steal, according

Line 0.0.5 to what she told the police after

Line 0.0.6 her arrest on a charge of shop

Line 0.0.7 lifting at Parramatta on Septem-

Line 0.0.8 ber 18.

Line 0.0.9 At the Parramatta Police Court on

Line 0.0.10 Monday she was charged with having.

Line 0.0.11 stolen two ladies' night-dresses, the

Line 0.0.12 property of Selfridges Ltd.; also with

Line 0.0.13 having stolen a lady's night-dress, a

Line 0.0.14 lady's vest, and other articles, the

Line 0.0.15 property of Woolworths Ltd. She

Line 0.0.16 pleaded guilty.

Line 0.0.17 Const. Nyall said that the defend-

Line 0.0.18 ant was arrested by a shop inspector.

Line 0.0.19 "Asked why she had committed

Line 0.0.20 the offxidces", the constable said, "she

Line 0.0.21 said that "she was going into hos-

Line 0.0.22 pital for an operation; that she had

Line 0.0.23 no coupons," and that she wanted the

Line 0.0.24 articles".

Line 0.0.25 The' defendant: I've been sick for

Line 0.0.26 a long time. I had no coupons.

Line 0.0.27 "I'm terribly sorry", the de

Line 0.0.28 fendant said. "It's nearly driven

Line 0.0.29 me mad since. I'll never do

Line 0.0.30 anything like that again".

Line 0.0.31 The magistrate (Mr. Sheridan):

Line 0.0.32 It's very silly to go and do this. You'll

Line 0.0.33 be branded a thief now, and will be

Line 0.0.34 watched every time you go into one

Line 0.0.35 of these shops.

Line 0.0.36 The defendant was fined £1 on