JOY RIDE SEQUEL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 128, 2 June 1939, Page 8

JOY RIDE SEQUEL.

TWO MEN BEFORE COURT.

ONE SENT TO PRISON. (By Tdleffrn.'pti. —PrrwH Aeeoctetlon.) (iHRIHTC'TtI'ROH. thin day. Allegation* that two young men, one of whom wii." intoxicated, hired a motor riir in Ihe city on the evening of May 'l.'t liy ■■••timiit t iii'j forgery so tlut I hey could ohtiilli the car. were made by Sub liim| tor W. !■'.. I'acker In the Afaiflftrate's (Hurt yi'Mteriliiy. The -.uli lllHpeetiir lidded thai Hie men had picked up two women ami had later gone joylidinif in the country, where an alleged iiMiiult took plaee, When they returned to (",'hrlntchurch they made a determined effort to enciipe when a coiwtuble gave rlißHi l . Patrick McQuillan, butcher, aged 2.'i, wan charged with being intoxicated in charge of M motor cur. lie pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to 14 days" gaol with hard labour. Hi* license wan cancelled and he wan declared unlit to hold another I ice line, for IS months. Me Quilian'rt i'awe wiw heard first.

Him couiimnioii on the evenrnjf the olTonce took place, Percy Hoyce Howlett, * labourer, of Rotherliam Street, appeared on five charged later. Me warn chiirjjed with Hiding Quillan in the nirenws of driving while intoxicated, with ii«irijr obscene language, with forcing McQuillan's name to a car rental agreement, with aMMuult niul with driving without a licence. He pleaded not guilty. The forgery charge was withdiHwii. For aiding in the commlanion of an otTencn lie w»e tlru-d £20, in default 14 day«' iinprinonment. On the other charge* he was convicted ami discharged.