TWO MEN ARRESTED AFTER RIDE IN CAR.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18887, 11 October 1929, Page 1

TWO MEN ARRESTED AFTER RIDE IN CAR.

POLICE ALLEGE THEY USED IT UNLAWFULLY.

Two young men were driven to the police station by a traffic inspector last evening, in a five-seater Chrysler car.' alleged to have been unlawfully converted. A detective, who sat in the rear seat, carried a repeating rifle, which, it is stated, was discovered loaded in the car. At about 6 o’clock the car drew up at the corner of North Avon Road and ChrystaD Street, North Richmond. One of the young men ordered some fruit from a shop there, but neither he nor his companion was able to produce any money. They were about to start the car again when a traffic inspector on a motor-cycle stopped them. As a result the police were sent for and a detective took charge of the repeating rifle, while the inspector drove the car to the police station. In the Magistrate’s Court to-day before Mr E. C. Lewey, S.M., Franfcis Xavier Toohill, nineteen, a musician, and Arthur George Coughlan, nineteen, a labourer, were jointly charged with converting unlawfully to their own use on October 10 a Chrysler car, valued at £350, the property of Gollin and Co.

On the application of Chief-Da-' tective Carroll, "both accused were remanded till to-morrow.