TRUCK WHEELS STOLEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20519, 21 March 1930, Page 16

TRUCK WHEELS STOLEN.

OFFENCE BY TWO YOUTHS.

ONE SENT TO THE BORSTAL.

"Cox is a thorough young scoundrel and I would ask Your Worship to send him back to the Borstal," said the probation officer, Mr. W. J. Campbell, when a charge of stealing two truck wheels and tyres, valued at £5, was preferred in the Police Court yesterday against George Edward Cox, aged 21, labourer, and John Haigh, aged 19, labourer. Both admitted the offence.

Chief-Detective Hammond stated that accused knew the owner of a disused truck at Avondale. Unknown to the owner the two went out with a motor-lorry, and, taking the vehicle out of the shed, commenced to tow it into town. The towing lorry broke down and accused then pushed the other truck on to a vacant section, selling the wheels to the driver of the towing lorry. Both had been in Court previously and Cox had served three years' reformative detention in a Borstal institution. Mr. Campbell stated that Cox had led the other accused astray and was responsible for the offence. Haigh could be given a chance. Sentencing Cox to two years detention in a Borstal institution, the magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, convicted Haigh and ordered him to come up for sentence if called on within_ six months. "I will have a hold over him," he remarked.