MOTOR UNLAWFULLY USED.
OFFENCE BY YOUNG MAN.
THREE YEARS' PROBATION.
" Hardly a day passes unless we have complaints that motor-cars have been stolen," said Chief-Detective Curamings, in the Police Court yesterday, when Baden Powell Crocker, aged 24, came up for sentence on a charge of unlawfully converting to his own use a motor-car valued at £300, the property of Leonard Heard. V
Mr. Cummings added that in most cases the persons who took the motor-cars were no» competent drivers, and that such escapades could easily be attended > with fatal consequences, It appeared that accused took that car from Commerce Street and in company with two other men, who did not know the car was unlawfully taken, went for a drive around the city. At the suggestion of the Rev. Jasper Calder, the magistrate, Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., admitted accused to probation for three years, and ordered him to make restitution of £1 to the owner of the car for benzine used on the ride. - —————— -____ v^
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18713, 20 May 1924, Page 5
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