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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 26, 31 January 1930, Page 11

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THEFTS -FROM PARKED CARS

■' 'Appearing for sentence in the Magistrate's Court tq-day on charges of unlawfully" converting a car to his own use and having no driver's licence, John MacPherson, ~ged 24, had five more charges, each of them of theft, preferred against him. Included in the iarticles which MacPherson admitted having stolen were two car clocks, 'a pair of spectacles, an electric torch, two drivers' licences, and a tire gauge. | Sub-Inspector Lander said that last Priday the accused had been convicted of being drunk while in charge of a oar and also having no driver's licence. On the next night, Saturday, he went cut to the Kilbirnie Speedway and took a car from there. Accompanied by a girl friend, he drove all around the city, being eventually caught by the owner of the car in Lyall Bay. Tho thefts occurred on tho 18th and 25th January, and the articles were taken from cars parked at the Kilbirnie Speedway. "I would just like your Worship to give me a chance on probation. Nothing like this will ever occur1 again,'.' said the accused when asked if he had anything to say. Mr. E. Page, S;M.: "You have had a learning, MacPherson." Tho accused was sentenced to one month's imprisonment on each charge, tho sentences to ibe'concurrent.