TOUR OF CRIME.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18892, 6 January 1927, Page 6

TOUR OF CRIME.

IN STOLEN MOTOR-CAR. [THE PMSB Special Btrtct-1 WELLINGTON, January 5. ; Harold Joseph Whittle, a motor mechanic, on December 14th took a motorcar which had been left in Mercer street by one of Hatrick and Co. s salesmen and set oat for Auckland, his hometown. He reached Tokomaru the nest day and there he stole a rug worth £3 belonging to Belaud Judd, and an overcoat and an attache case and its contents of a total value of fi» lis od, the property of John Albert Wilkinson. 'His nest move was to change the number plates of the motor-ear and go further north, obtaining petrol from various people on the route. After leaving Putaruru the car went over a bank turned over three or four times, and, landed in a creek. This did not end his tour, and it was not until he reached Cambridge on December 30th that he was These facts were admitted by Whittle in the Magistrate's Court today when Detective N. Robinson read a statement he had made Ohief-Detective Ward said that the accused, who was at present on probation, had a fairly long list of connc--IMr W. G. Riddell, *>M, : He seems to have very little sense of responsibility fio far as other [>eople's property is concerned. Whittle, alias Tobin, who is &» years of age, was sentenced to three month* imprisonment on each of the two charges of theft at Tokoroaru, the terms to be concurrent. He was committed to the Supremo Court for sentence for stealing the motor-carj and was remanded to appear at Feilding next Wednesday in connexion with a breaking and entering charge at Halcombe.