ESCAPEES IN COURT
CHARGES INVOLVED CAR CONVERSION
(P.A.) Westport, Nov. 14. Escapees from the Borstal Institute at Invercargill, William George Davison aged 18, and an associate, aged 17, appeared before Mr. A. A. McLachlan, S.M., to-day, charged with a series of offences involving car conversion, breaking and enterin? and theft, committed between Invercargill. Nelson, Blenheim and Westport. Both pleaded guilty to all charges. The younger accused, charged in the Children’s Court, was ordered to be returned to Borstal. Davison was remanded to the Supreme Court at Christchurch for sentence. The charges included threatening the police with a loaded rifle near Blenheim. One of the three cars converted was badly damaged in a collision with a power pole near Rolleston.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 270, 15 November 1945, Page 5
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