THREE YOUTHS BEFORE COURT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 23 November 1938, Page 7

THREE YOUTHS BEFORE COURT

CHARGED WITH THEFT AND CAR CONVERSION I Unitp.l I-repp AMutrinMnnl WELLINGTON, This Day. A series of escapades in which articles and money of a total value of over £26 were stolen and in which three cars were seriously damaged resulted in the appearance of three young men be- : fore Mr Stout S.M. to-day. Harvey Ashworth, aged 22. labourer, William Codk, aged 19, labourer and Keith Albert Andrews, aged 19, labourer, pleaded guilty to a joint charge of converting a car valued at £45, and six joint; charges of theft involving £lB 14s 5d i were preferred against Ashworth and. Cook. Two joint charges of car con- j version Were admitted by Ashworth and Cook, and Ashworth admitted the theft j of a watch valued at £3 and Cook two | thefts of articles of a total value of £4 10s.

It was stated that on 27th September] Ashworth was released from a Borstal institution on license. He renewed his acquaintance with Cook. The thefts; were committed frotn the crew’s quar-! ters of the Wahine, Poolta and Waipiata, and from a hotel. Andrews was concerned only in the case of the conver- i sion of a car abandoned by them in a damaged condition at Trentham after a collision with a post while being driven' by Cook. A car taken by the other two was put over a bank at Khandallah. The third car was driven to Levin and the following day they were involved in a collision.

Ashworth was given twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour on one charge and an additional six months' on another. Cook was given a year's icformative dentention oh one charge! and Andrews was ordered to come up j for sentence if called on within twelve months.