THEFT OF BICYCLE.
BORROWED MACHINE SOLD.
TERM OF IMPRISONMENT.
The theft of a bicycle, valued at £4, was admitted in the Police Court yesterday by Albert Edgar Stout, aged 33, driver, who was also charged .with obtaining credit by fraud by incurring a debt of 8s 6d with a taxicab driver. Chief-Detective Hammond said Stout, went to a house at Point Chevalier, whero he borrowed a bicycle and sold it the following day to a dealer in Ponsonby Ruad for 10s. It had been recovered, but in the interval had been sold by the dealer for 2s 6d more than he paid for it. Stout had been before the Court on May 17 for obtaining credit by fraud with a taxicab driver and had been ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within a ihonth. At the same time he had been ordered to pay expenses in connection with tho case and had taken no notice of the order.
''Remarking that accused had been given a chanco and had not availed himself of it, the magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, sentenced him to one month's imprisonment on the theft charge and to 14 days on the fraud charge, the sentences to bo cumulative.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20595, 20 June 1930, Page 14
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