STOLEN MOTOR-CAR

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10801, 18 January 1921, Page 5

STOLEN MOTOR-CAR

ACCUSED BEFORE COURT SENTENCED TO ANOTHER MONTH IN GAOL. IMPUDENT THEFTS. A young man named Andrew Bezzant, with two aliases, came before Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of stir, ing a bicycle valued at £l2 10s, belonging to Francis George Millman. Ghief-Deteotive Ward, for the prosecution, stated that the owner of the bicycle left the machine near the Kelburn tram office at noon on December 2nd, 1920, and returning later he found the bicycle missing. Subsequently the bicycle was recovered in a second-hand dealer’s shop where it had been deposited by the accused under an assumed name for the sum of £2 10si Another charge of unlawfully using a motor-car belonging to Doctor Henry John McLean, alleged to have been committed two days later, wae ak: preferred against him. It was stated that the oar had disappeared from Wellington and was found abandoned at Featherston shortly afterwards with the. petrol tank empty. Mr Ward said that accused had then gone on to Palmerston. North and interfered with another car for which he was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment, the term of .which had not yet expired. Considering the circumstances the mogistate sentenced the accused to one month’s imprisonment on the bicycle theft and ordered him to he convicted and discharged ora the latter charge. An order was made that the owner of the bicycle make restitution to the second-hand dealer who, it was stated, was very reliable and trustworthy.