FALSE STATEMENT TO POLICE
FINE OF £2 IMPOSED. Electric Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, Last Night. “The motor-car was not insured and defendant had nothing to gain by making a false statement,” said Detective-Sergeant P. Doyle in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, today, when Charles John C'oveny was charged with making a false statement to the police, to the effect that his motor-car had been unlawfully converted.
“You put the police to a lot of trouble,” said Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., when imposing a fine of £2. Police evidence showed that defendant was driving »liis motor-car one niglft when it caught fire. He called at the Central Police Station and said it had been taken from outside his home. He later admitted that this statement was untrue.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14066, 13 February 1939, Page 3
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