CAR CONVERTERS GAOLED
SIX MONTHS’ TERM TWO MEN SENTENCED (Par Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. On a charge of unlawful conversion of a car valued at £45, William Alexander Miller, aged 27, a casing worker, and Gerald Garfield Thoms, aged 28, a motor driver, were sentenced in the Police Court to-day to six months imprisonment. The car was stated to have been left standing in Murphy street for some time and was got going by the accused and abandoned in Tinakori road when they heard a broadcast message had been sent out. Thoms was also charged with the theft of 12 gallons «f petrol. Thoms said he was sober when driving the car and Miller claimed it was their drunkenness and silliness that made them do it.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19900, 30 March 1939, Page 7
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127CAR CONVERTERS GAOLED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19900, 30 March 1939, Page 7
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