GAOL FOR SEIZING CAR
|Peb United Phess Association.]
AUCKLAND, February 16
A' sentence of three months’ imprisonment was passed in the Police Court on Henry John Thackwell, aged fortyone, charged with converting to his own use a motor car valued at £l5O, the property of L. S. Maxwell and Co., Ltd. On two further charges of obtaining licpior during the currency of a prohibition order and of failing to produce a driver’s license when called upon, accused was convicted and discharged. All the charges were admitted. Senior-sergeant Cummings said the ear had been left in Hobson street about 4 p.m. on the previous afternoon. The owner had not locked it, and, returning shortly before 4.30, had found it missing. Later in the evening the owner of the car and a constable had seen the car travelling along Mount Albert road at a fast rate. The two gave chase and overtook accused as he was entering a shop.
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Evening Star, Issue 19793, 17 February 1928, Page 3
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157GAOL FOR SEIZING CAR Evening Star, Issue 19793, 17 February 1928, Page 3
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