THEFT OF MOTOR PARTS
ENGINEER SENTENCED (PaZ S3 ASSOCIATION TBLBBBAK.) AUCKLAND, September 13. Dreams of leading an expedition to the Auckland Islands next year to retrieve treasure worth £2,500,000 from the General Grant, wrecked there 69 years ago, ended in the Magistrates Court this morning, when a young engineer, Dennis Penn Lascelles, 21 years of age, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment by Mr F. K. Hunt, SJVL, on seven charges of stealing between May and September, a motor-car and accessories of a total value of £lll. • The police said that for some time Lascelles had been unemployed. He had been assembling a motor-car for himself and a month ago was engaged by a firm to sell motor parts. Having the keys of the depot, he stole parts from it. Counsel said that the young man was really brilliant. It was hard to "suggest why he had committed the offences. Counsel produced a medical certificate certifying nervous prostration. . . The magistrate said that in view of a previous conviction for taking motor parts, he had a duty to the community to perform. At counsel's suggestion, he agreed to recommend that the sen-i tence be served at Waikeria instead of i Mount Eden.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21578, 14 September 1935, Page 7
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