BICYCLE BORROWED
Youth Chased, Caught, Fined
A Chinese boy left his bicycle outside a shop for a few minutes while he went inside. A witness saw Henry Crawford Gault, aged 21, French polisher, take the machine and ride away on it. A constable gave chase and arrested the runaway. When Gault appeared before Mr. T. B. McNeil, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday he admitted having unlawfully converted the bicycle to his own use and was fined £3. He stated that he had asked the boy for the use of the bicycle ana had been refused, whereupon he took it. Fight to a Finish Victor Thwaites, aged 30, and Phillip Corliss, aged 39, bad fought t) a finish in Argyle Street before the police arrived on the scene at 4.10 p.m on Saturday. Corliss was cut over the eye and was in a fairly bad way. He was taken to hospital. Consequently, only Thwaites appeared in court when charges of fighting in a public place were preferred against the contestants. Each was fined £l.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 64, 9 December 1930, Page 13
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