THEFT OF MOTOR-CYCLE
TWO YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT. By Tele<”-anh—Pres’ Association. Christchurch, November 19. Claude Osmond Barker, the man'who posed at Auckland as the Rev. Don; AI.A., and was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for false pretences, appeared before the 'Supreme Court yesterday on a charge of having stolen a motor-cycle at Christchurch on November 6, 1920. As an alternative he was charged with having received the machine, knowing it to have been stolen. Tho accused, whb was not represented by counsel pleaded not guilty. Ho called a number of witnesses, but owing to the irrelevance of his cross-examination, the majority were ordered to stand down. He addressed the jury for an hour, condemning the whole case as a “frame-up.” The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and accused was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, to follow tho three years’ sentence he is now serving, nnd was declared an habitual criminal.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 49, 21 November 1921, Page 7
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149THEFT OF MOTOR-CYCLE Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 49, 21 November 1921, Page 7
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