BICYCLE THIEF
"Helias been making a business of stealing bicycles," said Chief-Detective Carroll in the Magistrate's Court today in reference to Michael Neville, aged 38, "an engineer, who pleaded guiltyrto the theft of, five bicycles, valued at £17 10s, the property of various persons. The Chief-Detective said that the accused sold three of the stolen-bicycles-to second-hand' dealers. He then began to advertise, cycles for sale, doing so before he stole the other two bicycles "mentioned in the charges. The" machines had • been recovered, but the people'—.vho v bought them Mere suffering the loss.'"T.-'. ■ : Mr. R. Hardie Boys said that Neville had contracted malaria ivhile on service in Egypt, and he suggested that a recent recurrence of it had caused him-to commit the' offences. . . . , " . Pointing out that the accused had been in trouble previously for theft and'for obtaining credit by fraud, Mr. E. Page, S.M., imposed a sentence of three months' imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent. He made an order for the return of the bicycles" to their owners.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 52, 2 March 1934, Page 2
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172BICYCLE THIEF Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 52, 2 March 1934, Page 2
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