NINETEEN CYCLES STOLEN

Evening Star, Issue 21723, 18 May 1934, Page 2

NINETEEN CYCLES STOLEN

EASY MHEY CAREER ENDED [Pa* Ukit*d Press Assoc:atiok.) AUCKLAND, May 17. A man who admitted stealing nineteen bicycles, mostly belonging to relief workers, _ was sentenced t6-day to six months’ imprisonment. His counsel said he was a bookkeeper who had worked well lor prominent city firms until 1 923, when lie. was retrenched. He had gradually been reduced to poverty, and stealing one cycle he had found it easy to sell it, and so stole more.

The police said the cycles had been sold to nineteen different dealers. There were more than nineteen stolen, but some were not traceable.

The magistrate told the prisoner, Austral Felix Broad, aged forty-seven, that imprisonment was the only possible thing in the circumstances. The magistrate ordered the cycles to be returned to their owners, and declined to make any orders for restitution to the dealers.