PRICE OF ADVENTURE.
THREE YOUTHS GO TOURING.
STOLEN CARS AND GOODS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, this day.
Three youths, Arthur Edward Cowper, Trevelyn Birdling Otten and Eric James Ferguson, pleaded guilty to unlawfully converting cars to their own use. These were the young fellows reported some days ago as having toured from the South Island by this method.
Otten was also charged with the theft of an overcoat valued at £4. Ferguson admitted stealing two motor cycle tyre levers and a, spanner, and Cowper the theft of a pair of socks, a tie and a shirt.
All of the accused belong to Christchurch. They took a car to Christchurch, abandoned it there; taking another and then on to Invercargill and back to Timaru, where they abandoned the car in a ditch. They took another car at Waimate, abandoning it near Christchurch, where they picked up a fourth and went to Hokitika, thence to Nelson, where this vehicle was abandoned in a quarry.
Some of the cars were damaged. The theftg were Committed on the journevs. Besides those in the charges there was a trail of benzine thefts. Cowper and Ferguson each got three years at the Borstal Institution, and Otten two years.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 40, 16 February 1929, Page 18
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