SEAMAN’S THEFT
AUCKLAND, April 2. An immaculately dressed seaman, Keith Edwards Thomas Turner, 19, was charged before the Magistrate (Mr. Luxford) to-day with the theft of a camera, valued at £lO, and on twelve counts of unlawfully converting to his own use motor cars of a total value of £4,220. Turner was sent to Borstal for two years. Senior-Detective Walsh said that Turner arrived in New Zealand last August and reached Auckland from Wellington in January. He had done no work but had unlawfully converted twelve cars, his method being to take a car, drive round the city and abandon it.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 April 1943, Page 6
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