MINERS' ESCAPADE
v-.r -^csiaiju.—jrress Association.) n * GREYMOUTH, This Day Clement Stanley Maurice Magon, aged 23, and William Allen, aged 30, two miner,, were convicted of breaking into a garage and converting to their own use a car the property of Philip ■ Courtenay Heaphy, of Greymouth. Early on Sunday morning they broke into a garage at Paroa and stole two cases of benzine They were arrested at Hokitika, when the car stuck in loose ground after leaving the The accused pleaded guilty, and said that they were under the influence of hquor. On the conversion charge each was fined £10, in default one month's imprisonment. On the theft charge each was nneel £5, in default fourteen days' imprisonment. They were ordered to refund the value of a damaged overcoat and rug, valued at £6. Magon was ordered to pay costs on a charge of driving without a licence.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 74, 29 March 1932, Page 8
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147MINERS' ESCAPADE Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 74, 29 March 1932, Page 8
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