THEFT OF BICYCLES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 1, 12 October 1943, Page 2

THEFT OF BICYCLES.

ONE MONTH'S IMPRISONMENT. TWO OFFENCES AT ASHBURTON. Pleading guilty to a charge of having stolen a bicycle valued at £B, the property of Margaret Douglas, John Crosbie Home, a salesman and painter, aged 36, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment with hard labour by Messrs G. Kelly and E. H. Orr, Justices of the Peace, in the Ashburton Magistrate’s Court this morning. On a similar charge concerning a cycle valued at £lO, the property of Ellen Russell, to which he also pleaded guilty, Home was convicted and discharged. He was remanded to appear at Oarnaru this afternoon on a charge of having stolen a cycle valued at £5, the property of Margaret Ellen Templeton. Sergeant A. Mclntyre, who prosecuted, said that on August 25 last accused removed a cycle from Burnett Street. On the same date he sold it to Money’s Cycle Works. On a previous date he removed a cycle from Tancred Street and later sold it to a man from Chertsey. When accused was located at Rakaia and interviewed by the police he admitted the offences. Both cycles had been recovered. “Thefts of cycles are becoming far too common,” said Mr Kelly in passing sentence. “Warnings have been issued regarding the penalty for this offence. Besides, the accused’s list Qf previous convictions indicates that a term of imprisonment is warranted.