TWENTY-ONE CARS CONVERTED
Student Teacher Pleads Guilty Sentenced To Borstal Detention (N.Z.P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 20 Between June 13 and July 13 John Keith Henley, a student teacher, aged 19, converted 21 cars in Wellington, and also stole from five of them a sleeping bag, a chain tape measure, a car radio, an overcoat and a car battery, said Detective-Sergeant E H Compton in the Magistrate’s Court today.
Henley pleaded guilty to a total of 26 charges preferred against him, and was sentenced to 12 months’ Borstal detention by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M. The total value of the cars converted was nearly £6OOO, Mr Compton added.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23259, 21 July 1945, Page 4
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