CONVERSION OF CAR.
THREE MEN IMPRISONED.
"WORST FORM OF OFFENCE."
[from our own correspondent.]
HAMILTON, Wednesday.
Please of guilty were entered by Stanley Keeble Clark, aged 36, Victor Burnett, ajspd 23, and Frederick Watson, aged 27, who appeared before Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Hamilton Police Court to-day, charged with converting a motorcar, owned by Martin Holland, to their own use.
Detective-Sergeant .T. Thompson said that each of the accused had admitted having stolen Mr. Holland's car from bis garage in Thames Street, Claudelands, on July 5. The car was driven to Okoroire, and was abandoned when the battery ran down.
The accused, in explanation, said the conversion of the car was the outcome of a drinking bout. The magistrate said the offence was the worst form of taking a motor-car without authority, since the seizing of the vehicle had been carried out for the purpose of crime. Each accused was sentenced to two months' imprisonment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21234, 14 July 1932, Page 13
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