ILLEGAL USE OF CAR.
TWO MEN FINED. WELLINGTON. June 30. Ronald George Dunn and Malcolm Anstice Rafferty were discovered by a* motor car owner in his car in a hotel yard. The radiator was hot, but the men denied converting it to their own When giving evidence in the court the owner said that when he tried to drive the car away one of the men tried to break his wrist. He drove to the Taranaki Street Police Station, where the men were arrested. Dunn gave evidence that Rafferty proposed to show him how the gears worked: The car was driven only a few yards backwards and forwards. Rafferty and he had arrived by a Sydney boat, and they had had some drink, but were not drunk. Mr W. G. Riddell, S.M., fined each accused £5, with costs, and damages to the car £6 2s. The charge of assault was not regarded as serious, and was dismissed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3773, 6 July 1926, Page 68
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