CHARGES OF THEFT.
AJAN AVHO PLANNED SEARCH FOR TREASURE..
Per Press Association. ' AUCKLAND. Sept.. 13. Dreams of leading an expedition to Auckland Islands next year to ietrieve the £2,500,000 treasure of the General Grant, wrecked there 69 yeais a"o ended in the Police Couit this morning when a young engineer, Dennis Penn Lascelles, aged 21, was sentenced by Mr F. K Hunt fe.M., on seven charges of stealing between May and September motor-car accessories to tlie total value of £lll. The police said that tor some time Lascelles had been unemployed and had been assembling a motor-car for himself. A mouth ago he was engaged by a firm to sell motor parts and, having the keys of the depot, he stole parts from it. Counsel said tlie young man was really brilliant and it was hard to suggest why he had committed the offences. He produced a medical certificate of nervous prostration. The Magistrate said that ill view ot a previous conviction for taking motor parts he had a duty to the community to perforin. At counsel’s suggestion he agreed to recommend that sentence he served at AVaikeria instead ot Mount Eden.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 246, 14 September 1935, Page 14
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