ENGINEER SENTENCED
THEFT OF MOTOR PARTS. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September 13. Dreams of leading an expedition to the Auckland Islands next year to retrieve treasure worth £2,500,000 Horn the General Grant, wrecked there 6J years ago, ended in the Magistrate s Court this morning, when a young engineer, Dennis Penn Lascelles, 2i vears of age, was sentenced to six months* imprisonment by Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., on seven charges cf stealing, between May and September, a motor-car and accessories of a total value of £lll. The police said that for some time Lascelles had 1 been unemployed. He had been assembling a motor-car lor himself, and a month ago was engaged by a firm to sell motor parts. Having the keys of the depot, he stole parts from it. Counsel said that the young man was really brilliant. ■ It was hard to suggest why he had committed the offences. Counsel produced a medical certificate certifying nervous prostration. , , f The magistrate said that m view ot a previous conviction for taking motor parts he had a duty to the community to perform. At counsel’s suggestion, he agreed to- recommend that the sentence be served at Waikeria instead of Mount Eden.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 285, 14 September 1935, Page 3
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