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Show STOLEN BUTTER ATS4PUI Aged Woman Pay FinJ for Theft of Four Ounces ' One quarter of a pound of butter Cost Mrs. W. H. De fourcy. ;o years of age, who livee at 75 fiist Fourth South atreet. lit today when that was the. sentence Judge Nnel H "ralt lis nosed on her In the cltv court fof shoplifting. The "tragedy" of the deal (a that Mra. re Courcv doean't get the quarter of pound of butter either. The offense Is alleged ts have been committed in the Plly Wlggly store In the Community market on Kast Broadway Thursday Thurs-day afternoon. The women la said to have picked up a quarter of a pound of butter arrd put It la a cleverly clev-erly concealed dreae pocket. An attendant at-tendant saw her and called ths police. po-lice. Ths butter waa taken to police headqusrfers snd reposed In- the deak sergeant's safe laat night ao It could be used for evidence In court this morning. Ths tlms In the safe, which is sn sfficient protector against burglsrs or fire, but not against nstural hest, was sufficient to spoil ths butter, or st least make It unfit for eating. Mrs. Ls Courcy psid her fins. Kllsa Alnaworth. who appeared In court charged with petty larceny and Is sstd to havs also stoisn s qusrter of a pound of butter at the earns store, pleaded not guilty. Her trial waa set for August 27 at 10 a. m. |