SIX-YEAR-OLD CHARGE
PROSECUTION FAILS HIRED CAR NOT RETURNED A prosecution instituted on January 10, 1931, against Oswald Benson Hogg, motor-driver, aged 27, on a chargo of unlawfully converting to his own use a motor-car valued at £350, the property of Shorter's Rental Cars, Limited, was dismissed in the Police Court yesterday by Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M. Accused, represented by Mr. Goklstine, denied the charge. Evidence was given that accused hired a car on the date in question, and it was found a week later at Gisborno. Accused could not bo located at the address given, but when making application for a special licence at the Newmarket police station on November 27 last ho was interviewed on the matter, and explained that ho drove the car to visit friends at New Lynn. A man who accompanied him volunteered to return the car when accused was invited to spend the night with his friends. Ho was surprised when he learned the car was never returned. Accepting the accu red's story as "seeming likely to be true," tho magistrate dismissed tho information.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22596, 8 December 1936, Page 14
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