MAN SENT TO GAOL
EVIDENCE OF ACCUSED DISBELIEVED.
WELLINGTON, March 25
.Erie John Bonner, who ran into a train near Paekakariki on March 17, pleaded guilty to-day to the unlawful conversion .of a motor car valued at £265, the .property of A. W, 11. Tilley. He was .sentenced by Mr Page, S.Alto three months’ imprisonment. Bonner had previously been placed on three years’ probation on two similar charges, and Mr Page remarked that In* did not seem to have, .learned a lesson. The car was stated to hav been damaged to the extent of from £IOO to £l5O.
Snlx-Inspoetor Ward said that the ear was taken from Countomiy Place a.t 3.40 p.m., and at 5 p.m. crashed into tin* New Plymouth express about two miles north ol Paekakariki. The man who was driving the car ran away into the bills, hut returned t‘> the scene and was accosted bjt the stationmaster. He gave an assumed name to I lie stntionn.iast.c-r and also to a constable, hut, when later., asked for some proof of his identity the accused gave his correct name. He, said that, he was not, the driver of, the car. He had boon given a ride in a motor lorry ns far as Paekakariki where lie bad met two men in a car and they had asked him to go to Wanganui with them. However, said the sub-inspector, the fireman of the train and also a youth, who was at the scene of Hie accident, saw only one man iff the ear, and the hoy said that tin' man driving I In'" car had ran up into the bills and hidden in soiim rushes. In 1926 licensed bad b“cri admitted to three years’ probation mi two charges of unlawful’conversion id cars, and in 1927 bad bad bis probation extended for a year on thro-' 1 charges of theft. He had only recently married and was at present unemployed. Air'.Virtue, who appeared for Bonner. re-iterated accused’s explanation, that 4 here woi'e two other mm> * ’- 1 • *
car. and that they bad offered him a lift to Wanganui.
The Sub-Inspector: His instructions lo counsel are qiii.li> contrary to the evidence of eye -witnesses of the accident.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1931, Page 3
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