YOUTH TAKES CYCLE

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 92, 13 January 1932, Page 5

YOUTH TAKES CYCLE

Posed as a Customer SHOPKEEPER DUPED Dominion Special Service. Masterton, January 12. When a Masterton second-hand dealer agreed yesterday morning to allow a prospective customer a trial of a bicycle he stipulated that the machine should not be ridden past the corner. While he watched, however, the machine was ridden the length of the street and upon reaching a corner turned it and disappeared. The sequel was heard in the Masterton Police Court this morning when Reginald Fawcett, an eighteen-year-old farm labourer residing with his parents at Lansdowne, was charged with the theft of a bicycle, the property of R. Russell. Sergeant T. H. Dyer stated that when the dealer saw his machine disappear he notified the police, and shortly before lunch accused was seen riding along Belvedere Road, Carterton. The police stopped him, and he told them that he had bought the machine two years before at Taihape. Upon being arrested, however, he admitted having stolen it. Messrs. E. G. Eton and C. M. Bowden, justices of the peace, who were on the bench, convicted Fawcett and ordered him to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months, expressing the hope that the case would be a lesson to him. DECAMPED WITH CHEQUE \ Man Gets Three, Months Wanganui, January 12. , Saying that he would be back within an hour, Horatio Dare, alias Raymond Ware, alias Dare Henry, took a cheque belonging to Mrs. Phyllis M. Horne to be cashed at Wanganui on November 20, but failed to return and rang that night from Hawera to inform Mrs. Horne that he had been called away on business and would be back the following night. However, he failed to return and was arrested at Christchurch under the alias of Raymond Ware. Senior-Sergeant McLean said that there was small chance of recovering the money, and the Magistrate, Mr. J. H. Salmon, said that accused’s story did not reflect great credit on him, nor did he think that accused had behaved properly to the unfortunate woman. He then sentenced Dare to three months’ Imprisonment.