SEVEN YEARS AGO.
CYCLE AND SIDECAR STOLEN. PORTER COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. Pleading guilty to an offence over seven years old, Harris O'Neill, aged 39, porter and labourer, was to-day committed to the Supreme Court at Auckland for sentence.
Accused was charged with obtaining a motor cycle and sidecar valued at £100 at Hamilton on January 8, 1920, but means of false prctences. William Pitcher, cycle dealer, gave evidence that lie allowed accused to take out a machine on trial on the representation that ho had £123 in the Tost Office Savings Bank. The cycle and sidecar were recovered at Pokeno the next month. Detective-Sergeant Thompson read a. confession signed by accused.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 116, 19 May 1933, Page 3
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