CAR ENGINE DAMAGED
Charges of theft of motor-engine parts valued at £2 and of wilfully damaging a motor-car engine to the value of £7 were preferred against Arthur Norton Ashley, a hawker and labourer, aged 51, who appeared before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today.
Sub-Inspector D. J. O'Neill, who prosecuted, said-that Ashley was a hawker who collected scrap metal.. At about midday yesterday he borrowed a sledge-hammer from a garage, and took it to the backyard of another garage nearby in Taranaki Street. There was a motor-car engine in the yard, and the accused commenced to break it up for old iron, although he had no right to be on the premises. When discovered he had some of the metal from the engine on the handcart. He candidly admitted hf had no right there, and was taking the iron for sale.
Ashley was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months, a condition being that he make restitution of the amount of the damage.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 6
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175CAR ENGINE DAMAGED Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 6
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