COSTLY JOY-RIDE
PETROL STOLEN ON JOURNEY two men flead guilty. -Alfred Victor Smith and james Peter Walker were charged at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday with stealing a tin of kerosene, and a tin of motor spirit, valued at 16s 6d, the property of
the British Imperial Oil Company. They pleaded guilty. , Senior-Detective Cameron, in conducting the police ease, stated that the accused commandeered a motor-car, owned by Mr F. Goldberg, and drove as far as the Upper Hutt, stealing the kerosene and motor spirit while on the way. For converting to their own use Mr Goldberg’s car they were already serving a term of two months’ imprisonment. Mr O. R. Orr-AVal'ker, S.M., imposed a sentence of one month’s imprisonment, to he served concurrently with the previous two months’ sentence.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12199, 25 July 1925, Page 4
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