MEDDLING WITH MOTORS.
GAOL THE SURE PENALTY. A plea that he was in desperate straits to get transport from Heleneville to catch the train at Auckland that he might visit a sick wife in Wellington wag put up on behalf of William Ceo. McKernan (32), when be came before Mr. Justice Reed art the Supreme Court yesterday on charges of breaking into a garage and stealing a motor car at Helensville. "He had missed the train at Helensville and had no way of ; getting to Auckland to get on the ex- , press, co, having been formerly em- , ployed at the garage, be went and took the car, drove to .Auckland, put the car \ up at a garage there, and went to hie wife at Wellington." Such was Mr. Wyatt's plea for the prisoner, in asking ■■ for probation. His Honor declined to grant probation, declaring that the Court muet make it clear to people, and particularly to motor mechanics and others who had a special knowledge of cars, that if they take motor care hi thi« way they will go to gaol. The came thing applied to motor launches, he eaid. Prisoner was sentenced to a year's reformatory detention.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 98, 27 April 1922, Page 11
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198MEDDLING WITH MOTORS. Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 98, 27 April 1922, Page 11
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