SERIES OF CHARGES
YOUNG SOLDIERS IN COURT
(P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Oct. 30
A lively story was unfolded in the Magistrate's Court today of the escape of three soldiers from detention in a military camp, the conversion of two motor-cars, the theft of about 30 gallons of petrol and quantities of foodstuffs, and attempts to break into places. James Ernest Arthur Ward, aged 20, Owen Mervyn Howse, 19, and Stanley Thomas Port, 19, pleaded guilty to 12 charges of breaking, entering, and theft, and attempted breaking and entering of stores at Pio Pio, Inglewood, and New Plymouth. The value of the goods stolen was about £130. They also pleaded guilty to six summary offences—two of conversion of cars and four thefts of petrol.
On the indictable offences, they were committed for sentence and on the others, convicted and remanded for sentence till- dealt with in the Supreme Court.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 106, 31 October 1942, Page 8
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