TWO MONTHS' GAOL

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 33, 9 February 1939, Page 10

TWO MONTHS' GAOL

CONVERSION CHARGE (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ' DUNEDIN, February 8. Stating that the accused and the complainant were friendly and that the iotiaer had previously had authority to ride the motor-cycle, Mr. O. G. Stevens. asked for leniency on behalf of Keith Mclntyre Cameron who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court to a charge of having converted to his own use a motor-cycle valued at £75, the property of Leslie James Scoullar. The chief detective said that the accused. had been previously convicted on. a similar charge. In the present instance complainant had left the cycle on the roadside in Belleview Crescent and when, he returned from visiting a house there he found that-the cycle had disappeared. The accused had taken it home and afterwards had ridden i$ about town. Later, when the loss had been broadcast, the accused's father had. instructed, his son to return the cyclfe immediately, and the latter had left it outside the business premises at which the complainant was employed: The Magistrate, Mr. J../R. Bartholomew, said that converting motorvehicles appeared to be the accused's weakness. He would be sentenced to two months'^ imprisonment with hard labour.