Man Who Took Truck At Whakatane Gets Three Months
Three charges involving car conversion. fraud and theft, including the conversion of a truck at Whakatane, were preferred against John Huro Bowman, 24, when he appeared in the Rotorua Police Court. He was convicted and sentenced to one month’s imprisonment on each charge the sentences to be served cumulatively. Senior-Sergeant P. E. Alsop told the Court that accused had converted a Ford motor truck valued at £6OO, at Whakatane on November 23. He had driven the truck to Horohoro, where it had become bogged in a paddock. When apprehended by the Rotorua police, accused had been asleep in the truck. Accused also admitted a second charge of having stolen a watch valued at £9 from a jeweller’s premises in Tauranga, but said he had since lost the watch. On a third charge of incurring credit by fraud, accused was alleged to have hired a taxi at Tauranga and his fare £4 10s, had not been paid.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 16, Issue 27, 1 December 1950, Page 5
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