STEALING FROM CAR
YOUNG MAN CHARGED “BECOMING COMMON PRACTICE” That stealing articles > from parked cars was becoming a common practice in Whakatane was stressed by Sergeant Farrell when Leo Stewart, a labourer of Wairaka Pah, appeared in Court on Thursday charged with such an offence. A plea of guilty was entered.
The Sergeant went on to state that recently in Auckland several men who had been apprehended for offences of this nature had received sentences of six months. The stolen articles consisting of clothing were valued at £8 and had not been recovered. Messrs. C. G. Lucas and I. B. Hubbard, Justices of the Peace, were on the bench.
Sergeant Farrell said that John Robert Rae, a commercial traveller and owner of the missihg articles had left his car in the yard of the Commercial Hotel overnight on July 10. The following morning the clothes were missing. Accused had been found loitering near parked cars in a suspicious manner at night and when interviewed by the police had admitted the theft. He said that he had put the articles in a rubbish tin but enquiries had failed to locate them.
Stewart was sentenced to one month s in the Whakatane Gaol.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 70, 22 August 1947, Page 5
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201STEALING FROM CAR Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 70, 22 August 1947, Page 5
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