CONVERSION OF CAR
TWO MEN - IN COURT Charged with unlawfully converting to their own use a motor-car valued at £344, Richard Godfrey Copley, bootmaker, aged 23, and Robert Jeremiah Creighton, labourer, aged 22, appeared in tho Police Court yesterday, befora Mr. C. R Orr Walker, S.M. Copley was also charged with being intoxicated in charge of a car in King's Drive on September 16. Mr. Robinson appeared for the accused, who pleaded guilty. Detective-Sergeant McHugh said the car was taken from Hobson Street, and was located by the police patrol in the waterfront road at midnight. Copley was intoxicated, but Creighton was not. They said the car had been lent to them. Mr. Robinson said Copley was under the influence of liquor when he took the car. Creighton was also affected when he got into the car. William Reginald Taylor, owner of the car, said it had been damaged to tho extent of about £4O. _ For being intoxicated in charge Coplev was fined £2O and costs, and prohibited from obtaining a driving licence for two years. On the conversion charge Copley and Creighton were each fined £5 and costs, and ordered to pay £l7 10s each toward the cost of repairs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22843, 25 September 1937, Page 19
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