CONVERSION OF MOTOR-CAR.
I TERM OF IMPRISONMENT. The conversion to his" own use of a small Austin motor-car was admitted by Roderick George Anderson, aged 23, mechanic, in tho Police Courl yesterday before Mr. F. K. Hunt. S.M. Detective-Sergeant Kelly said accused was caught by two bank officers in the act of converting tho car outside the premises of the bank at Newmarket on j Thursday evening. Another youth, who 1 was not associated with the offence, was j with accused, who tried repeatedly to start the engine. ..The officials were attracted by the noise of tho electric starter. " He has had a lot lo do with cars," Mr. Kelly added. " Well, ho will not have much to do with them for the next three months," the rnagistrato said, after perusing accused's record. He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21100, 6 February 1932, Page 12
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