Cycle Thief Gaoled

NZ Truth, Issue 1241, 12 September 1929, Page 7

Cycle Thief Gaoled

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Christchurch V .-_'•■ V ■'■■ ; : \Rep.) -~:' : >\'\ y" ".'>:' "I HAVE been • here for .spmie . . v ' * . months, and'pradticaUy every.. ; week 'I have: threatened to do v .'something to stop these petty and ■ contemptible.; thefts of bicycles m Christchurch." • .-(. N These remarks, were : made by, Mr. E. C. l-evvey, S.M., m the 4 ."• Christchurch Magistrate's^ Court ; when William Mann, a nineteen^- . years- old youth, pleaded, guilty, to ; : a charge of stealing a bicycle. ••-.'•• ; "You have been trading on this, iand for that reason I will not sen-. --. . tence you to reformative deten - tio.nj" Mr. Levvey remarked, "but 4 will treat you as I did the last man who appeared on a similar charge. You will be sentenced to three , months' hard labor." .;