GAOL FOR CAR CONVERSION
"I can't have it said that because a man has been overseas he has a right to come back and take anybody's car in the street," said Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today when he imposed a sentence of one month's imprisonment upon Frank Vivian Mence, labourer, for unlawfully converting a car valued at £300, the property of G. F. Vance. The car was removed from Blair Street yesterday afternoon, said Senior-Sergeant G. J. Paine, and Mence was seen in it in Tory Street soon afterwards. He admitted taking it. It was his first appearance in the Court.
Mr. T. Taylor said that Mence had been a transport sergeant in Greece and Crete and had been wounded in the head in Libya. His only explanation was that he was in a hurry and took the cor.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 56, 3 September 1943, Page 3
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144GAOL FOR CAR CONVERSION Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 56, 3 September 1943, Page 3
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