YOUNG MAN ACQUITTED
CHARGE OF THEFT $ SPARE TYRE ON CAR Pleading not guilty to two cftarges, firstly of having stolen a tyre, the property of Eric Pratley Scragg and at £4, and secondly with having received the tyre, knowing it to be dishonestly obtained, a yound man Robert Gordon (Mr. M. R. Maude) appeared before Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today. He was found not guilty. Detective G. A. McWhirter, who prosecuted, said that a spare tyre had .been'removed from Srtagg's car and later had been found on the accused's car. The accused said that the tyre had been on his car and he had purchased it. • Mr. Maude submitted that actual theft had not been proved. The wheel to,which the tyre had been attached bad not been found and, being a wire wh'eel, would be of little use to the defendant. In reply to evidence given for the prosecution to the effect that the •tyre was marked by contact with a caravan drawn by Scragg's car, evidence was given for the defendant •that the car operated by the accused also.could make the same type of marks on the tyre.
After having heard the evidence called by both parties, the magistrate dismissed the information
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19892, 21 March 1939, Page 7
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208YOUNG MAN ACQUITTED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19892, 21 March 1939, Page 7
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