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 £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...