CHARGES OF THEFT LAID BY POLICE.
MEN ALLEGED TO HAVE DAMAGED MOTOR-CAR.
Charges of theft and mischief laid by the police against George Langford Claude Minifie, a labourer, aged thirtv-two vears, and Arthur Ernest Joseph Victor, a motor driver, aged twentv-nine years, were heard in the Magistrate’s Court this afternoon, before Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M. The full text of the charges against them was:—That on December 17 thev stole a generator, fan, two bumper bars magneto and timing chains to the value of £34 lt)s, the property of Dominion Motors, Ltd., and (2) that on the same date at Lyttelton they wilfully damaged a motor-car engine to the extent of £35, thereby committing mischief. A man. aged forty-five years, was charged with receiving from Minifie two bumper bars, a magneto and generator valued at £29 10s, knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained. The cases were adjourned froni this morning, when Minifie and ictor elected to be dealt with by a jury an*l pleaded not guilty. They were represented by Mr Hunter. (Continued in Stop Press.)
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19271, 7 January 1931, Page 7
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