CONVERSION OF CAR
THREE MONTHS' HARD LABOUR
The story that they had met a man who had told them to go and sit in the car while he went and got a bottle of whisky for the three to take to a party at Miramar was told to Mr. E. Page, S.M., to-day- by George Cann, a grocer, aged 40, in explaining why he and William John Newman were in a stolen motor-car in Ghuzneo street. Newman, a plasterer, aged 50, said he did not remember anything about it. The accused were jointly charged with unlawfully converting to their own use the car, valued at £.270, the property of F. W. M. Daw. Constable T. Smith said that he heard the car had been stolon, and as a result, of information received he went to Ghuzneo street, where he found the car abandoned.. He- waited there, and later the two accused came along and got into the car. Witness wont up and arrested them. -The selfstarter of.the -car-was going when he reached it.. '■■ ■'■■:'■ ■ ■• After hearing . Cann's explanation, the Magistrate, remarking that both accused had -long lists of serious convictions, sentenced them each to three months' hard labour.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 115, 12 November 1930, Page 13
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CONVERSION OF CAR
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 115, 12 November 1930, Page 13
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