COSTLY INTERFERENCE
(Press Assn.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 26. “There has been £40,000 worth of other people’s property gone up in smoke in a few moments as a result of your wrong interference. If you lived to be a Methusaleh you could not pay that.” Mr Justice Ca'llan said this in the Supreme Court today to Frederick Demchy, aged 18, who came up for sentence for unlawful conversion of a Lockheed Lodestar monoplane, the property of Union Airways, valued at £40,000. This was a sequel to the action of Demchy, a member of the Air Training Corps, in getting into the plane at Mangere aerodrome on the evening of May 14 and endeavouring to take ofi for a flight, hut almost immediately crashing. The plane took fire and was destroyed. After hearing counsel for the defence, the Judge said that in his view Demchy was In no sense a criminal. He had caused damage he could never repay, but he would he admitted to probation for three years, and in that time would have to pay £IOO as restitution in instalments of 15s a week.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 256, 27 September 1945, Page 5
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183COSTLY INTERFERENCE Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 256, 27 September 1945, Page 5
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