YOUNG MAN GUILTY.
THEFT AND UNLAWFUL CONVERSION.
Per Press Association
WELLINGTON, April 21
Leslie Charles Burke, a labourer, aged 20, to-day pleaded guilty before justices to converting to his own use a car valued at £l5O, the property, of Dennis Mulliave; also to the theft of a tyre valued at LI 15s, the property of the same owner.
The" police, stated that accused took the car-from a parking place and drove to Levin, where lie sold the spare tyre to obtain petrol. He then got as far as Hamilton, where he committed theft, for which he got two years’ reformative treatment.
The bench adopted a suggestion to convict and discharge the accused, who is on his way to the Borstal Institution. The return of the tyro to the owner was ordered.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 123, 22 April 1927, Page 10
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