STOLEN BICYCLE
: Mauu Tomaru, a labourer, aged 21, was admitted to one year's probation by Mr. W. 11. Woodward S.M., nt (he Magistrate's Court to-day ou a charge o[ stealing a bicycle, valued at £S Ss, the property of Raymond K. Shroovo. ' Sub-Inspector Ward said the bicycle was left in the street by its owner. Shortly afterwards the. accused took it avvnj- and sold it to a Hindu in Tory sheet for ]f>B. The bicycle was recovered, and when tho accused' was arrested yesterday he said he was hard up. »t\d wmiti'd tho money to pay for some new strings for nil instrument'ho played. Tho accused, who wns living with his brollicr in town, had been before tho Court in .Inly of h>st year, when In- was liuod A"A for the theft of an overcoat from n dsunv hslt, Aflrr hoariun :i f.-»v\nin>>ili> report by Mio frokiUow Oth'wr. Mr. T. X\ .Mill*, the "Mauistrato nontoncrd Toiu.iru to a term of 'pvob.'ition, iutd vinlerod l«im to repay the J(\s whii'h hi>. h:\d received from the sale of tho Inoyvlo. i
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 121, 25 May 1931, Page 11
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STOLEN BICYCLE
Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 121, 25 May 1931, Page 11
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