SUGAR PUT IN PETROL
-Presa Assooiation.)
Employees' Grtidge Against Employer
(By Telegraph-
DUNEDIN, This Day. Because of a grudge tliev harboured against their employer, two young men, Jaines Edward Stoddart, aged 27, and Buport J ame§ Banks Etheridge, aged 20, decided to settle the score by tipping a pound of sugar into his petrol tank. They pleadecj guilty this morning to a charge of wilfu] damage. The police stated that the accused were roundsmen for a dairyman, who had given them notice. A petrol-sugar mixture got into the engine, causing considerable trouble and some expense." In view of the men's previous goodi j record the case was adjourned for two yeaTs conditional on payment of the I damage done to the motor. |
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 1, 24 September 1937, Page 5
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