HARD LABOUR.
CONVERSION OF MOTOR CAR. SENSATIONAL ARREST NEAR OKOROIRE. SPILLETT SENT TO GAOL. (By Telegraph. —Own Correspondent.) CAMBRIDGE, this day. A sequel to the collision near Okoroixe ( on Friday evening last between a Cam- < bridge police car and another vehicle, t which proved to be a car reported as 1 missing from Cambridge six weeks ago, together with the somewhat sensational arrest of Wilfred John Duncan Spillett, • a wed 22, -was the appearance of the accused in the Police Court this morning before justices of the peace. He was charged with unlawfully converting a car, owned 'by Miss Jessie Watt, of Cambridge, on August 17. , Spillett was also charged with driving without a license and Avith obtaining £15 from David Hiram Brown, at Puketurua, < by false pretence, on May 9. In connection with the latter charge the evidence showed that accused had. a j motor cycle on a hire-purchase agree- ' ment from a Hamilton firm which : he subsequently sold to Brown for £15, from whom it was eventually seized. On the two serious charges the accused was sentenced to three months' hard labour on each term, to be cumula- 1 tive. On the charge of driving without a license he was convicted and fined 20/ and costs.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 236, 6 October 1930, Page 10
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208HARD LABOUR. Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 236, 6 October 1930, Page 10
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