BICYCLE THEFTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 8 May 1935, Page 5

BICYCLE THEFTS

SIX MONTHS’ GAOL.

WANGANUI, Tuesday.

Pleading guilty to a charge of stealing a bicycle valued at £lO, at Turakina, William Henry Hunter, a farm hand, aged 25 years, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with hard labour by Mr J. 'H. Salmon, S.M., in the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court this morning. On charges of stealing a bicyclo valued, at. £6. at Wanganui, and the theft of a cycle wheel and a pair of handle-bars valued at £2 6s, accused was convicted and discharged.

Detective C. L. Packman said accused had stolen one of the bicycles from the Wanganui wharf, and of this machine only a wheel had been recovered. Ac-/ eused bad stolen the other machine at Turakina on the night of Ist July last, and, according to his statement, had removed one Avheel and throAvn the remaining parts into a river. Accused had been sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment at Wanganui in November last for the theft of a. cycle lamp. Bicycle thieving, ho said, was prevalent in Wanganui, and Avas hard to detect, especially Avlien several machines Avere taken to pieces and built into one cycle. “Bicycle thefts are far too numerous in this district, and I am bound to impose imprisonment,” said the magistrate. “Very often theso thefts in : volve hardships on their owners, who are frequently Avorking girls and men.”—(P.A.)