Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-23 | Page 9 | Shop Thieves Are Sentenced

SHOPTRIEVES ARE SENTENCED Shoplifter Claims Others Getting Away-With It Two shoplifters are serving sentences sen-tences In th city Ja'l today for erlmee which they admitted doing Wednesday afternoon at the Piagly-Wlggly Piagly-Wlggly atore .In the Community market on East Broadway between Main and Flats street - Others are doing It and getting away with It, so I thought I could also." J. c. Wldmer. ! Brlien court, told Judge Noel a. Pratt this morning when he wae brought before be-fore him to answer to the charge of shoplifting. "Your opinion will coat you Iff or fifteen daye In Jail." Judge Pratt said.- Wldmer wee taken to Jell when he wae unable to pay the Bertha Miller, addreaa unknown, was given a straight (all sentence oten days when ehe pleaded .guilty to the charge of shoplifting. H. Clever admitted to the court that he had stolen a ran or fruw from the store. He declared It was hie -first offense and asked the court's leniency. Judge Pratt sentenced sen-tenced him to fifteen daya In Jail and suspended It upon promise from the defendant that he would never steal again. He waa lectured and warned If lie ever came In Judge Pratt's court 'again on a almllar charge the most severs sentence possible would be meted out .to him.