CONVERSION OF CAR
Sentence On Driver Who Gave Himself Up Palmerston North, March 23. “This is a serious type of offence, and not the sort for which I grant probation,’’ said Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Palmerston North, to-day in sentencing Francis William Mundie, fitter, aged 27, Wellington. to two months’ Imprisonment on a charge of unlawfully converting a motor-car. Senior-Sergeant J. Mclntyre said that about 6.30 p.m. on March 19, Mundie took the car in Wellington ant 1 drove to Petone, where he .picked up a female companion and two others, none of whom was aware that the ear was stolen. He drove to Foxton. where they all stayed the night. During the journey he heard the radio broadeirst for the missing car and ultimately sur rendered himself to the police. Nothing criminal was known about Mundie, but his conduct in his recen' employment in Wellington was not satisfactory, ns he was unreliable and untruthful, and said to be addicted to drink. It appeared that he was drift ing into undesirable ways.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 152, 24 March 1938, Page 3
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