MISAPPROPRIATED CAR
TWO MEN IMPRISONED.
By Telegraph.—Pb-.ss association. Blenheim, October 13.
The story of two “swaggers,” who relieved the tedium of a weary trudge across country by appropriating a motorcar to carry' them on their way, was uufoflded iii the Magistarte’s Court today before Mr. T. E. Maunsell, S.M., when two young men, Thomas Shaw and Edgar Stanley Hall, pleaded guilty to having, on October 11, at Blenheim, converted io their own use a motor-car valued at £2OO, the property of Clouston and Co. Constable Byrne found the car abandoned on McArthur's property, “Ngaianui,” and ultimately came up with {he accused, then on foot, at Kekerangu, ien miles further south. Both accused were sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment with hard labour.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 17, 14 October 1927, Page 16
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121MISAPPROPRIATED CAR Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 17, 14 October 1927, Page 16
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