UNLAWFUL CONVERSION OF TRUCK

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22661, 16 March 1939, Page 4

UNLAWFUL CONVERSION OF TRUCK

TERM of imprisonment IMPOSED (TRB PRESS Special Sen-lee.J WELLINGTON, March 15. ‘‘The accused is already serving six months’ imprisonment for thefts from his employers in Timaru,” said Detec-tive-Sergeant P. Doyle in the Magistrate’s Court in Wellington to-day, when Charles Edward Falnall, a labourer, pleaded guilty to the unlawful conversion of a motor truck, the property of Thompson Bros., in Waikaia, Southland, on December 17, 1938. Mr J.'H. Luxford, S.M., sentenced Falnall to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour, the term to start at the expiration of the sentence ow being served. . Detective-Sergeant Doyle told the Court that the accused was employed by Thompson Brothers on their farm in the Southland district, and on December 17 was lent a truck for the journey to Waikaia, a condition being that he returned to the farm that night. The accused failed" to return, and a search of the district did not reveal any trace of the accused or the truck.

Accused wenl to Gore, said the De-tective-Sergeant, and left there on the morning of December 18. without paying for his night’s lodging. He subsequently went to Dunedin, and paid for the truck to be left in the parking area, after which he wrote to his former employers and told them he had left to be married and gave a Port Chalmers address. The story about the marriage was false, and the address fictitious. The truck was recovered by the owners.