“RUNNING A BIT WILD”

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20053, 27 September 1939, Page 14

“RUNNING A BIT WILD”

SEAMAN’S OFFENCES PROBATION GRANTED (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. John Charles Allen Olsen, aged 23, a seaman, in the Police Court yesterday, pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawfully converting at Auckland in June, 1938, tile launch Kiritia, valued at £I2OO, the property of Winstone’s Limited, and, at Nelson, on September 11 last, converting a motor car valued at £3OO, belonging to Leo Patrick O'Connor. The police said that Olson was permitted to live aboard 'the launch which was tied up at the wharf. After a dance there was a party of men and girls aboard and beer was drunk. Later Olsen took the laur.cn out on the harbour .without permission or the necessary certificate. On September 11, lie took a relative's car at Nelson and drove 103 miles, ran out of benzinY and abandoned it. “He has not been in trouble before, lie has been running a bit wild,” said Detective-Sergeant McHugh. Defending counsel, Mr. Noble, said that the launch conversion was only a technical offence. Olsen steered it only a couple of hundred yards in a spirit of bravado. The magistrate, Mr. C, R. Orr Walker, fined accused £3 on the first charge and admitted him to probation for one year and ordered him to pay j £2 expenses to the owner ol the car I on the second charge.