CONVERSION OF CARS
YOUTH AND GIRL SENTENCED (P A ) AUCKLAND, April 5 An 18-year-old youth, Lance Matthew Dunn, pleaded guilty before Mr J H Luxford, S.M., to-day and was sentenced to 18 months’ reformative detention on eight charges of converting cars. An 18-year-old girl, .Betty Frances Whitlock, who was jointly charged with Dunn in four cases, pleaded not guilty. The evidence on her statement was that she was in company with Dunn and a younger youth, and that Dunn suggested taking a car and going for a ride. She walked on with the other boy, until picked up, each time. In committing her to probation, the Magistrate said he considered it was a proper procedure that the girl was
charged and he had no doubt of her guilt Young women should know that they were equally guilty of conversion when they went out in a car knowing it was converted.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23915, 6 April 1943, Page 6
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