The Telltale Bite

Like many office secretaries in England, 37-year-old Norah Maloney sets great store by her weekly 5-oz. ration of chocolate, caches it in the office filing cabinet. One morning last January Miss Maloney entered her office at David Shanks & Co., Birmingham manufacturers of sheet-metal pressings, found files and paper strewn about, the cash box rifled of -L-4 2s. 9d. Her chocolate bar was half eaten.

Police took the chocolate. Later, they arrested 29-year-old Irishman Hugh Creany Laverty. Last week, at Laverty's trial, Dr. John Anderson, dentistry lecturer, testified that the teeth marks on Miss Maloney's chocolate corresponded with Laverty's dental pattern. It was Laverty's eighth offense; he was sent to jail for two years.

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