CONVERSION OF CAR

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 71, 17 December 1937, Page 17

CONVERSION OF CAR

Truck-Driver Sentenced

MAGISTRATES’ COURT

Appearing, .for. sentpnee„on a charge,.of unlawfully converting a car, the property of Abraham Mark Hollander, at Chrietchurch on June 21, Bernard Edward Way, truck-driver, 19. was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on in the next two years, by Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday. . DetectiveTSergeant Doyle said Way was with two other youths at Christchurch when they decided to take a car. They drove off and were pursued. Way left the car apd escaped. Mr. E. D. Blundell appeared for Way. Alleged Theft From Car Leslie James Wedderspoou, bootmaker, aged 20, and Robert George Burns, labourer, aged 19, pleaded not guilty to the joint charge of stealing nt Lower Hutt on October 31 a pair of opera glasses, camera, blanket, a pair of sun glasses and a warrant of fitness for a car, of a total value of £2/3/6, the property of William Arthur Middlemiss. Detective-Sergeant Doyle said the articles were taken from a car parked outside a church at Petone. The car was later found abandoned at Lower Hutt. Also missing from it was a kit of tools and a starting handle. The other goods were found in the possession of accused when they were arrested at Wanganui. The detective-sergeant applied for a remand to Wednesday, and this was granted. Traffic Offences For parking in a prohibited area John Garnett Seaife was convicted and fined 10/- and costs 10/-. His excuse was that he parked the vehicle in Willis Street at 9 o’clock one morning while he had business to do elsewhere in the city. When he returned at 7 p.m. he could not find the car. The employer, Kodak, N.Z., Ltd., and employes, Aubrey Dexter Levy, were each charged with operating a motorcycle with defective brakes. The company was convicted and ordered to pay costs 10/-, and the employee convicted and fined 10/- and costs 10/-. When stopping the machine at the request of a traffic officer the employee had to drag his feet along the ground.