MIDNIGHT ARREST

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 221, 14 June 1930, Page 12

MIDNIGHT ARREST

Conversion of Car ATTEMPT FRUSTRATED A noise as o/someone trying to start a motor-car in a yard in Dixon Street shortly after midnight on Thursday attracted the attention of a constable. A sequel was the appearance before Mr. E. Page, S.M, in the Police Court yesterday of Frank. Guckert, labourer, aged 19, who pleaded guilty 'to attempting to unlawfully convert to his own use a motor-car valued at £2OO, the property of Harry Douglas Nattrass. Detective-Sergeant Holmes said that accused had made two attempts to start the car. There was a girl with him, and he told the constable that it was his intention to drive her home to Petone as the last bus had gone. Guckert had pot been before the Court previously. The Magistrate: The car was not, in fact, started? Detective-Sergeant Holmes: No. Asked if he had anything to say, accused said there was no other way of getting the girl home. Mr. T. P. Mills, probation officer, suggested that Guckert should be placed under supervision rather than sent to gaol. Accused was admitted to probation for twelve BtOHWis, A charge against him of being a rogue and vagabond in that he was found by night without lawful excuse at 108 Dixon Street, was withdrawn. THEFTS ON TRAIN During a railway journey between Dunedin and Christchurch, Thomas Sharpies/ fireman, aged 35, opened the suitcase of a fellow passenger who was asleep and stole a pair of trousers and other articles of clothing of a' total value of £2. Pleading guilty to the charge,. he was ■ fined £5, in default seven days’ imprisonment. Detective-Sergeant Holmes said that accused was at present awaiting trial In the Supreme Court on another charge, He had no previous convictions. “I was under the influence of drink at the time, and really did not know what I was doing,” Sharpies told the magistrate before sentence was imposed upon him. REMANDS GRANTED A further remand for a week was granted in the case of Mary Anderson, aged 19, who had pleaded guilty to being foynd unlawfully on 87 Ghuznee Street. Cecil Banks, who was charged with obtaining from the Wellington Hospital Board food to a value of 14/- by a false pretence, was remanded to appear on Tuesday next. A similar remand was granted in the case of Margaret Monahan, who was charged with obtaining from the Wellington Hospital Board food to the value of £l/7/6.