James Norman Richards, aged 24. a jomer, was sentenced to-day at Auckland to six months’ hard labour, to be followed by two years’ reformative treatment, for converting motor cars. Finger-prints on the glass panel of one car which vas abandoned were found to tally with those of Richards’ taken when he was previously in prison. Evidence was given by (.unstable Collingo, oi Pa meiston North, that after z hearing a broaden t<l ascription of a stolen car he accosted two men m a car, ono of whom was Ku hards. While he was questioning Richards he was •truck on the head from behind. Another witness said that no ccmplaiuis of stolen cars had been >i •rived since Richards had 1 n rested.—Press Assn.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 77, 13 March 1933, Page 7
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