STOLEN GREASE-GUN
TAXI DRIVER FINED £1 10/. "I'm afraid I cannot accept the story as told by defendant in view of what ho told a constable," said Mr. W. R. MeKean, S.M., in the Police Court this morning in fining Arthur Edward Jones, taxi driver; £1 10/ and costs on a charge of theft of a grease gun worth £1, belonging to W. S. Miller. Jones pleaded not guilty. Evidence was given by an employee of Miller's garage that on September 12 Jones called at the garage to obtain oil. After he had gone the grease gun was missed. Constable Taylor produced a statement obtained from defendant in which Jones said he picked up the grease gun from the counter while at the garage. He did so merely out of curiosity and inadvertently placed it on the running board of his car while he took some money from his pocket to pay the garage attendant for oil obtained. Defendant gave evidence to this effect, while another taxi driver was called and stated that later the same evening he noticed something resembling a grease gun on the running board of Jones' car in Newmarket.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 238, 7 October 1932, Page 5
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