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COMMENT ON TEMPTATION. GAOL FOR CAR CONVERSIONS [by telegraph—press association] CIIRISTCIIUIICH, Thursday "For seven years you have both consistently and deliberately broken the law, and you appear determined to live an anti-social life," said Mr. Justice Xorthcroft in the Supreme Court this morning, when imposing sentence of six months' imprisonment upon Bruce Clive Ward, aged 21, labourer, and Leslie Albert Sales, aged 25, labourer, who appeared for sentence on three charges of converting motor-cars to their own use and one of converting a motor-cycle. "Temptation was supplied by people who left keys in their cars," said counsel. "Why should people not leave keys in their cars?" inquired the Judge. "That contention presumes a dishonest public, and the public is not dishonest. The only temptation is to dishonest people."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22878, 5 November 1937, Page 16
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