CONVERSION OF CAR
YOUNG MAN SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT
(PRESS ASSOCIATION" TELEGRAM.)
PALMERSTON N.. March 23
“These offences are serious. The punishment has gone up to 12 months’ imprisonment for summary conviction, and to two years where the right of trial by jury is exercised. It is not a class of offence for which I give probation,” said Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., when Francis William Mundie, aged 27, a fitter, of Wellington, pleaded guilty- to converting to his own use. a
car valued at £360, the property of Wilfred Charles Marchant. The police stated that accused took the car, owned by a traveller, from a street in Wellington. He drove to Petone, picked up a girl friend and a married couple, and went to Foxton, where he later surrendered to the police, stating that while driving north he had heard on the . car’s radio set a broadcast for the missing vehicle. A sentence of two months’ imprisonment with hard labour was imposed.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22359, 24 March 1938, Page 8
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