THEFT OF CARS
ACCUSED SENTENCED ( Per Press Association. ) AUCKLAND, Aug. 27. John Henry Wilson, aged 23, described recently by the magistrate as practically a motor bandit, admitted further charges to-day of converting cars at Napier, Otane and Dannevirke, stealing petrol at Pukehou, and breaking into a house at Waitotara and stealing goods worth £3B. He was sentenced to twelve months’ reformative detention, additional to the terin he is at present serving. He did not plead to the last charge, on which he was remanded.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 201, 28 August 1935, Page 8
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84THEFT OF CARS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 201, 28 August 1935, Page 8
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