SERIES OF OFFENCES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 81, 3 October 1938, Page 11

SERIES OF OFFENCES

THREE MEN DEALT WITH

A series of offences committed in Wellington and Lower Hutt during Jialy and August resulted in the appearance before Mr. A. M. Goulding, S.M.,in the Magistrate's Court today of Francis William Watson, a farm manager, aged 28, Stanley Grant Wills, a motor-lorry driver, aged 22, and Herbert Edward Barnes, a service station attendant, aged 24. They were charged jointly with the conversion, on August 31, of a motorcar valued at £ 180, the proporty of Oliver Samuel Goss, and with the theft of motor-car parts and accessories valued at £25 Is 3d. Watson and Wills appeared on ten other charges, comprising the conversion of a car, the property of Dominion Motors, Ltd., the theft of property valued at £34 2s 6d, and the theft of 12s worth of petrol. Barnes was charged with receiving property valued at £4. All the stolen goods, with the exception of the petrol, have been recovered by the police. The defendants Watson and Wills were each sentenced to three months' imprisonment on the first charge, and to an additional two months on the second. On the .others they were convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months. Barnes was admitted to probation for two years, a condition being that he should not associate with the other two, and should not drive other than for business for a period of twelve months. On the other charges he was convicted and discharged.