CARS CONVERTED

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 56, 3 September 1936, Page 6

CARS CONVERTED

TWO MEN GAOLED

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September 2. A sequel to a trip from Auckland to Wellington in converted cars by two young men and two girls was heard in the Magistrate's Court, this morning, when Thomas Samson Ewen Callendar, 19 years of age, a labourer, and Jack Story. 21 years of age, a butcher, pleaded guilty to two charges of con-~ verting cars-—one valued at £175, the property of Alva Craig, of Auckland, on August 16, and the other, valued at £245, belonging; to A. and T. Burt, j Ltd., Wellington, on August 20. Both were further charged with the theft of registration plates at . Wellington, while Story alone was charged with theft at Auckland of £.4 18s, the property .of Thomas Collins. .They pleaded, guilty. ' ..'"'■ . ~ The police said Miss Craig's car, stolen from Auckland, was found abandoned at Wellington, while the : car taken from Wellington was found in the possession, of accused when they returned to Auckland on August 22,

When interviewed both accused made frank admissions. They said they had picked up.the two girls in Auckland and took them, to Wellington, sleeping in the car on the way south. On the way back the only food they had was what accused stole from boxes on farmers' gateways.-Both girls were over 16 years of age.

Replying to appeals by counsel for probation, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., said: "Young men can't get away with that —not in this city. Oh, no! They will each be sentenced to three months' imprisonment on each of the conversion charges.'-' An order was made that while in prison they are to -be kept apart. : -~.-■ ■ . - .