CAR CONVERSION
Young Man Remanded , For Sentence (By Teleuraoh— Press Assocfat.ioti.1i AUCKLAND, Last Night. "I want to know 'more about this young man, ' ' stated Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Police Court when William Lewis Baker, aged 25, a wool classer, appeared on a eharge of converting a motor-car valued at £160, the property of Muriel Isobel Peddie, of Hastings, at^ Napier on April 13, ' Detective-Sergeant McHugh said that following the disappearance of the motor-car it was seen two days later in Wellington in the posAession of the accused) who booked in at an hotel under an assumed name. It Was in a garage until April 22, when accused drove it away, and, when he was arrested in Auckland on charges of obtaining credit by frand, it was recovered from a garage. Baker was reluctant to speak of himself, as he said he did ndt want to hurt his parents, who were well respected in HaWke 's Bay. Baker, who pleaded gnilty, was remanded to appear for sentence on June 17. .
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 119, 5 June 1937, Page 5
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171CAR CONVERSION Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 119, 5 June 1937, Page 5
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