THEFT FROM BURNED CAR
Six Weeks’ Jail Imposed For the theft of goods to the value of £l/16/6 from a car parked In Tara'nakl Street, on January 21, William Henry Gardiner, cook, aged 49, was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment with hard labour by Mr. J. 11. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday. Gardiner, who pleaded not: guilty, conducted his own defence. Sub-Inspector D. A. McLean called John Henry Meyer, contractor; who said his car was burned at Island Bayon January 20. It was brought into the city and parked in Taranaki Street. Constable S. Williams said he saw Gardiner about 6.15 a.m lift the door of the luggage boob on the car and take out a wicker ‘basket containing a variety of articles. When he approached accused he dropped the basket. Gardiner said he saw the car on his way home from work. The back was open. He took hold of the basket and pushed it aside to see what damage had been done. Gardiner was shown to have 44 previous convictions, many- of them for theft.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 106, 29 January 1938, Page 8
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