STOLEN CARS

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12643, 31 December 1926, Page 4

STOLEN CARS

A WOMAN RECEIVER REFUSES TO REVEAL THIEF. "There is no doubt there is a man behind her," said a police officer of a woman of 21, who. confessed at the Marylebone Police Court that she had received stolen motor-cars. The accused, Mirian Sinclair, who described herself as independent, and gave an address at Sunny Gardens, Hendon, was charged with stealing and receiving two cars, and with stealing £2 from the till at a hairdresser’s in New Oxford street, after she had been employed there for only two hours. "I have not stolen the cars,” she said, “but I admit receiving them.” “Receiving them, knowing them to have been stolen P” the -magistrate asked. “Yes, to a certain degree,” she replied, smiling. When r/rresited by Dftective-Ser-geant Harris and accused of having sold the first car in Euston road, she alleged that the oar had been given to her, but tfie officer said his inquiries showed her story to be false, and she was arrested while presenting for payment the cheque for £BO, which she had received for the first car. The second car she tried to sell at Golders Green.

The prisoner, curtly replied “No” when asked if. she had anything to say., The magistrate remarked that she did fiQt seem to mind much. She replied that she had been behacing “like i this” because she had no income. . When asked how she managed to get the caffs from parking places if tickets were issued to the owners, Sergeant Harris said that in one instance the owner left the ticket ul the pocket of the car. The magistrate: If people do that sort of thing they must expect to lose their cars. Sergeant Harris said that a man was seen to lake one of the cars, and there was no doubt that she had a man behind her, but she refused to say who he was. - Mr Hay Halkett said ho could not blame her for that. He sentenced her to six months’ imprisonment without hard labour.