MOTOR BANDITS QUARREL
A .SHOT AND,A NEW GANG
FORMED,
LONDON, July 21
A motor-cur bandit, who formed a new gang after lie hud been shot in the head by .a former confederate, was sentenced at the Old Bailey yesterday to three years’ penal servitude.
He was George' Price, aged 38, and he and four men sentenced with him ;.o the same term of imprisonment were described as a very dangerous gang of motor bandits. The other men were Albert Paine, aged 34; William Baldock; aged 32. Daniel Lawrciv.ce, aged 29, and Wiliam Prince, aged 2G. The latter pleaded guilty to stealing a motorcar and possessing housebreaking implements by night, and his companions were found guilty of possessing housebreaking implements. HEAD-ON CEASHE'S. Detective-Sergeant Law, of rho Scotland Yard Flying Squad, said that the men were seen to drive up to a tobacco warehouse. Police officers drove towards them and displayed the police Sign, but Prince deliberately drove his ear into the leading oolice car, .“mashing the steering gear and buckling one of the wheels The stolen car, which Prince had taken from a garage, mounted the pavement and was driven head-on into a second police car, which was also badly damaged. The two cars became locked, and the men jumped out and were arrested after a struggle.
Price and another gang of motor bandits were responsible for a number of safe robberies in London. During a quarrel among the gang Price wa.s shot through the bead by one of |iis confederates, and he left them and formed the gang with the members of which he was charged.
Price was a very clever and desperate motor driver. The car the men were in had a false identification plate and a forged road license. Judge Gregory, jpa&sing senten.ee. said a new form of offence had been adopted by men who stole mot-or-cars, usqd them for committing crime, and escaped in them, and afterwards abandoned them. The accused men were extremely dangerous miembers of Society, and the public must be protected against them.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1929, Page 8
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