Three Charged With Conversion

Northern Advocate, 14 December 1946, Page 8

Three Charged With Conversion

fP.A.) HASTINGS. This Day. With the arrest or questioning of at least six people the Hastings police this | morning were busy investigating a I series of car conversions and thefts j from cars, and other offences all asso- , ciatecl with unlawful conversion of ! vehicles in Hastings and Napier, i When inquiries are completed it is 1 believed that a number of cases reported to the police will be cleared up. Three young men were formally charged in the Police Court this morning with alleged conversion of cars, | one in Hastings and the other in Napj ier, and subsequently the police brought at least one other young man to the station for questioning. In the Police Court before the Justice of the Peace. Frederick Helmer ! Johnston, described as a labourer, re- | siding in Guppey’s Road. Taradale. | was charged that on December 10. at i Napier, he converted to his own use a car valued at £275. the property of Elsie May Theyers. On tiie application of Detectivc-Ser- ■ geant A Reid, who said that defendant ; was arrested yesterday afte'rnoon and ! that further charges were pending, deI fendant was remanded to appear in I Napier on Monday. Two other youths. Mackil Tomoana

! and Chriss Mill, both described as labi ourei's. and residing at Waipatu Pa, j were jointly charged with converting I to their own use a car valued at £250. | the property of Keith Horace Spaek- | man. i Detective-Sergeant Reid, in asking j for a remand until Tuesday, said fur- ! ther charges were pending, i The remand was granted.