TOOK POLICE GAZETTE

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30278, 2 November 1963, Page 17

TOOK POLICE GAZETTE

Cleaner Fined £lO (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, October 31. To pass the time waiting for a boiler to heat up the Trentham Police Training School. Lyall Clarence Mitchell, aged 24. a cleaner, took from an office a copy of the “Police Gazette" containing prisoners' photographs, his counsel (Mr L. F. Beck) said in the Magistrate’s Count at Upper Hutt today. Mitchell pleaded guilty before Mr J. E. Keane, S.M., to charges of stealing the "Police Gazette” valued at 16s 3d, and to having police photographs unlawfully in h:s possession. Detective Sesiior-Sergeant J. Nan carrow who prosecuted. said Mitchell was a partner in a firm having a contract to clean the school and. as such, was in a position of trust. He had left the journal which was a confidential document, in a rental car. It was found when he returned the car. Mr Beck said his client had about 15 minutes to wait while the boilers warmed and passed the time in his rental car browsing through the gazette. On the theft charge. Mitchell was convicted and fined £lO. On the other charge he was convicted and discharged. All Steamed Up When a Lancashire motorist switched on the heater of his new car the rear window misted up and a naughty four-letter word appeared, the "Daily Mirror” reported. When the motorist switched off the heater and the window became clear, the word vanished. He took the car back to a garage in Bottle. Lancashire, and asked them to do something about the ghostly writing. All the garage could do was to provide a new window. A garage official said attempts were made to clean the glass without success. The “Daily Mirror" suggested the window glass was of the twolayer type and the letters were written between the layers.—(London. Oct. 31 )