THREE MONTHS' GAOL

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 59, 7 September 1937, Page 13

THREE MONTHS' GAOL

\ CAR CONVERSION

I A sentence .of three months', im-, prisonmerit with hard'labour was imfjosed by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in ihe Magistrate's Court today upon a young man. Robert-Joseph Reardon, a j labourer, who had.been charged with I converting a motor-car to his own use iiin August 30. In cross-examination ■Ilia accused admitted that he had been three times previously convicted of car converting, but denied that he had 'been guilty in any of the cases. ■ Mr. Mosley said that lie had had the accused examined by doctors and was of opinion, from the medical reports, that the accused was fit to plead. At the conclusion of the defendant's case, Mr. Mosley said that he accepted the evidence of the prosecution. In, the public interest, he said, there were only two places for the accused, either gaol or a mental hospital. As the accused had. already gone through courses of treatment in various institutions, gaol appeared- to be the only alternative.

Mr. R. E. Tripe, who appeared for Reardon, said that in the accused's interests he was constrained to plead not guilty. 1

After hearing-the-evidence Mr. Mosley said, that 'lie' liiaSL' not:' the: slightest hesitation'- in . holding, the;,'.accused guilty,v-y'_; '' '- -.■■-■■;;■■ ■-:'-■,' ■■ .■ ■ .