Helped Herself at the Self-Service Store
The court was told, that whilst shopping at the Fine Fare self-service supermarket in Warwick Road, a 58-year-old Kenilworth spinster stole a pound of butter and a packet of gammon. Housekeeper, Lilly Watts of Stoneleigh Ave, pleaded guilty to the thefts. Remarking about supermarkets, Inspector Albert Cox said: “These are places which display their goods to all and sundry, and there is a temptation for people just to take stuff”.
He said that Watts was shopping in the supermarket on 3rd September and was putting several articules into a basket. But the manager saw her slip the butter and gammon into her own basket. He told the cashier about the incident. After paying for the goods in the store’s basket, the cashier asked if she had anything else on her. Watts said she had not. But when the manager approached her, Watts admitted the thefts. She was fined £2.
Cigs Cost Her Nearly £1 Each
At court, a 48-year-old Kenilworth woman alleged to be earning £9-a-week, stole 30 cigarettes from the self-service supermarket, Fine Fare in Warwick Road. Winifred Ellen Bucknill of Mortimer Road, pleaded guilty to the theft.
Inspector Albert Cox said that Bucknill was shopping in the supermarket at around 12.45p.m. on October 8th. The store’s assistant manager saw her take the cigarettes and place them in a basket provided by the store. When she went to pay she did not declare them to the cashier. When the manager questioned her, she said she had not taken them. But later, when the police were called, she admitted all.
The bench was told she had previous convictions of a similar nature. The court showed no sympathy, and fined her a right packet – £25.
Not So Clever ‘Litter Lout’
Norman Parkinson of Coventry was not so clever as he ought to have been, when he set out to dump a pile of junk which included: three tins cans, a pedal operated bin, cardboard boxes, paper, bricks, a cement bag, a car battery and a box of rubbish. The place he chose to convert into a wayside tip was a country lane, Cryfield Grange Road, which connects the Coventry Road to Crackley Lane.
To the defendant’s dismay, he was traced by the painstaking work of a policeman, who discovered amongst the junk a bit of paper bearing his name and address. Which proved very useful.
The magistrates dumped a fine of £5 on Mr. Parkinson for ‘depositing litter’.