CAR THIEVING
THREE MEN CHARGED. SERIES OF CASES LIKELY. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 10. Arthur Edward Cowper, labourer, aged 20; Eric James Ferguson, tinsnrth, aged 19; and Thevelyn Billing Otten, Backsinith, aged 19, were jointly charged with stealing at Chrisicnurch a motor-car valued at £340, the property of James Leo Carrington. In asking for a. remand, the Chief Detective said ' the accused had only been arrested on tbe arrival of tbe Nelson boat. There would be other charges against them. He understood that the accused had been converting a car to their own use, driving with it to another town, and there abandoning t'.e car taking another. None of the abandoned cars, he said, bad been recovered. Bail was allowed each in £2OO.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19290212.2.15
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 12 February 1929, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
125CAR THIEVING Hokitika Guardian, 12 February 1929, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in