CAR PILFERERS FINED

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 85, 4 January 1930, Page 14

CAR PILFERERS FINED

“PRACTICE MUST BE STOPPED” “This practice of stealing from mo- , tor-cars lias to be stopped,” said Mr.1. Salek, J.P., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when, with Mr. T. 11. Coltnum, J.P., he convicted Charles Edward Hill, aged 36, and William Wilson, aged 57, on a charge of stealing a rug, valued at £l, from a motor-car. The two accused were seen by Detectives Kearney and Hayhurst, who were looking through the window of the Mount Cook police station, to have a rug in their possession which they did not have a few minutes before when they were being watched on account of their suspicious behaviour. Detective-Sergeant Holmes said he believed the rug was the property of a doctor at Lower Hutt. Both accused, who had been previously before the Court, had been drinking methylated spirits on the afternoon in question. The rug was stolen from a motor-car which was parked in Buckle Street during the cricket match at the Basin Reserve on December 30. Each of the accused was fined £3, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment.