CONVERSION OF CAR
YOUTH'S SECOND OFFENCE A MONTH'S IMPRISONMENT [FROM OT'R own correspondent] HAMILTON, Friday A sentence of one month's imprisonment was imposed on Ronald Claude Batten, aged 20, by Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in tho Hamilton Police to-day, for converting a motor-car to his own use. Accused pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant Sweeney said that Mr. D. S. Ross, of Te Puke, parked his motorcar in Ilood Street', Hamilton, early last evening. When he returned shortly after ton o'clock the car had disappeared. It was afterwards found at Cambridge, where accused had taken it in order to attend a ball. The car was watched until midnight by Constable Jones, and Batten was arrested. The senior-sergeant said that accused was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment last January for taking a car at Dargaville.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21296, 24 September 1932, Page 14
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