RAIDS ON CITY CARS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19339, 1 June 1937, Page 13

RAIDS ON CITY CARS

THIEVES SENT TO GAOL WIDE RANGE OF GOODS (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, til is day. Rilling ears in the city on the nights of May 21 and 22. Robert. Cyril teller and William Thomas Crocker stole goods valued at £4B and ranging from a wireless set lo a pair of trousers. Both were senleneed to-day to imprisonment for one year with hard labour. They appeared in the court before Mr. E. C. Levvey, >S.M. Telfer was described as a labourer, aged 4U years, and Crocker as a butcher and labourer, aged 46. “The whole of these eases are of thefts from motor ears. A very large number of complaints have been received,’ said Delective-,Sergeant Holmes, in referring to eiglil charges against the accused. “There seems to he little reason why they should prey on people the way I hey have been doing. Both have got had records.” The detective-sergeant said that Detect ices Watt and Trctliewey had been detailed to investigate complaints. Suspicion had fallen on Ihe accused, and the goods had been found in their house. “These thefts were committed while under the influence of liquor,” Telfer claimed. “Most of the stuff has been recovered.” Crocker had nothing to say. “You are both aiming steadily at being habitual criminals,” said tho magistrate. “It does not rest with mo. hut Hint’s what will happen.”