ADMITTED TO PROBATION
A youth, aged 17, whose name was ordered to be suppressed, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court to-day to having unlawfully converted to his own use, but not so as to be guilty of theft, a motorcycle, valued at £50, the property of .Horace Martin Knopp. Detective-Sergeant Holmes said that tha defendant and another young man, who would be dealt with at Hastings, took the motor-cycle from outside a house and rode it to Day's Bay. They the machine back to the city and left it at the back' of a garage. No damage had been done. . Counsel for the defendant (Mr. W. E. Leicester) asked for leniency, submitting that the present proceedings would be a severe lesson. . ... The youth was. admitted to probation for twelve months.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 17, 21 January 1928, Page 15
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130ADMITTED TO PROBATION Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 17, 21 January 1928, Page 15
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