THREE MEN IN COURT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 38, 24 November 1938, Page 5

THREE MEN IN COURT.

THEFT AND CONVERSION CHARGES. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, November 23. A series of escapades in which articles and money of a total value of more than £26 were stolen, and in which three cars were seriously r damaged, resulted in the appearance of three young men before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., to-day. Harvey Ashworth, aged 22, a labourer, William Cook, aged 19, a labourer,, and. Keith Albert Andrews, aged 19, a labourer pleaded guilty to a joint charge of converting a car valued at £45, and six joint charges of .theft, involving £lB 14s sd, were preferred - against Ashworth and Cool:. Two joint charges of car conversion were admitted by Ashworth and Cook, and Ashworth admitted the theft of a watch valued at £3, and Cook two thefts of articles to a total value of £4 10S.-W ~ '/

It. was stated--that on September 27,. Ashworth' was released" fi'ont a, -.Borstal institution" on licence, ; and he renewed his acquaintance with Cook. The' tlioits were committed, froth, 'the or'ew’s -quarters of the Wuhimy. Pooltay and Waipiata. - and- from -an -hotel-. Andrews was concerned only in the case of the conversion of the car abandoned by them in a damaged condition at Trentham, after it had struck a post while being driven by Cook. . The: car taken by the other two was put over a bank at Kandallah. The third car was driven to Levin, and the 1 allowing day they were involved in-a collision.

Ashworth was given 12 months’ imprisonment with hard labour on one charge, and an additional six months On another. Cook was sentenced to a. year’s reformative detention on o.iie charge, and Andrews was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within 12 months.