THEFT OF MOTOR-CAR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23381, 24 June 1939, Page 20

THEFT OF MOTOR-CAR

PAINTED DIFFERENT COLOUR LABOURERS FOR SENTENCE [from ont OWN correspondent] HAMILTON, Friday Pleas of guilty were entered by two labourers. Percy Henry Birchfiold, aged 22, and Travice Alfred Climo. aged 21, when they appeared before Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Hamilton Police Court charged with the theft of a motor-car valued at £1(50 at Rotorua, and the theft of motor accessories, valued at l.'ss 2d. the property of the Public Works Department, at Tokaanu. On a further charge relating to the theft of clothing at Auckland, they were remanded to appear in Auckland. Kvidenco wa.s given by John Richard Denver, a linesman, of Rotorua, that he left his car at a garage in Rotorua on the morning of May 27. When he returned in the evening, he was told that the ear had been repaired and left outside with the key in it. When he looked outside tho garage, the car had disappeared. The vehicle was then grey in colour, but it was now painted blue with black mudguards. For the theft of the car, accused were committed to tho Supreme Court at Auckland for sentence, while on the charge of stealing the motor accessories, they were ordered to come up for sentence within three months if called. On a further charge of failure to pay maintenance, Birchfiold was sentenced to throe months' imprisonment.