THEFT FROM MOTOR-CARS
FOUR MEN BEFORE COURT. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Wellington, Aug. 11. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day Victor Hugh King,' aged 45, Joseph Eric Cornish, aged 18; Marcus Leach, aged 23, and Duncan Morton Cameron, aged 32, appeared on charges of theft from motor-cars. King and Cornish pleaded guilty to stealing two suit-cases and contents valued at £l9 ss. Cornish was sentenced to tw T o years’ rstal and : King to three months in gaol. Leach and Cameron had taken a brief bag and surgical instruments from 'a doctor’s car and tried to sell the bag to a second-hand dealer. Leach was admitted to _tw,o years’ probation. Cameron was sentenced to four months in gaol. On a charge of stealing a suit valued at £5 Leach and Cameron were remanded to Taumarunui. Leach pleaded guilty and Cameron not guilty.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 August 1930, Page 13
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