CYCLE CONVERTED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20442, 12 June 1936, Page 3

CYCLE CONVERTED

MACHINE BORROWED FROM LAUNDRY A charge of unlawfully converting to his own use on May 22 a bicycle, valued at £2, the property of Evelyn Cooksley, was admitted by Stanley Earl, who appeared before Mi’ C. R. Orr-Walker, S M.. in the Timaru Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Detective Thomas said that defendant went to the right of way of a laundry and took the bicycle, used it and returned it four days later. He had occasion to report to the Labour Bureau and as his own cycle had been stolen, he took the woman’s machine. Earl, who was a single man, and was unemployed, had no intention of stealing the cycle.

Defendant claimed that the cycle had been in his possessoin only for a day and a half. In reply to the Magistrate Detective Thomas said that on his return from the Labour Bureau defendant had drink at an hotel. The Magistrate said that although defendant’s cycle had been stolen he had no right to borrow the other machine. There were, however, special circumstances in the case and Earl would be convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months, a condition being that during that period he abstained from taking liquor. He noticed that defendant had been convicted for converting a car some years ago, and he hoped that in future he would keep out of trouble.