SYPHONED PETROL
UNEMPLOYED MAN GAOLED. [Per Press Association], INVERCARGILL, August 16. . “An offence of this kind is difficult to detect,” said Detective Sergeant R. Thompson, when William Joseph Lyons pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to-day to theft of ten gallons of petrol valued at £l. Detective Sergeant Thompson said that accused had been caught at 1.50 a.m. on Saturday syphoning petrol from a tank at the rear of a motor truck. It was rather a mean type of theft. The accused was on sustenance. The accused was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment with hard labour.
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Grey River Argus, 17 August 1937, Page 7
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96SYPHONED PETROL Grey River Argus, 17 August 1937, Page 7
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