CONVERSION OF CARS
OFFENDER WITH A MANIA
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This, Day.
An admission that between November 8 and November 29 he converted ten motor-cars of a total value of £2949 to his own use was made by Neil Charles Clifford Crouch (22), labourer, in the Police Court today. Crouch was chased and caught by a commercial traveller in Carlton Gore Road a few {tights ago.
Defending counsel said that evidently Crouch had a mania for taking cars when he had a few drinks. He had previously served three years in a Borstal institution for similar offences.
Crouch was sentenced to two years in the Waikeria Borstal Institution.
A youth of 18 who was concerned with Crouch in taking one of the cars was placed on probation for two years. Counsel said that the youth was admittedly under the influence of his older companion.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 137, 6 December 1935, Page 11
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