JOY RIDING ROUND SOUTH ISLAND.
THREE YOUTHS STEAL FIVE OARS. Wellington, February 15. Three youths, Arthur Edward Cowper, Trcvelyn Birdling Otten, and Erie James Ferguson, pleaded guilty to unlawfully converting cars to their own use. These were the young fellows reported some days ago as 'having toured from the South Island iby this method. Otten was also charged with the theft of an overcoat valued at £4. Ferguson admitted stealing two motor cycle tire levers and a spanner, and Cowper the theft of a pair of socks, tie and shirt. All the accused' 'belong to Christchurch. They took a car at Christchurch, and abandoned it there, taking another and going on to Invercargill and back to Timaru, where they abandoned the second ear in a ditch. They took a third car at Waimate, abandoning it near Christchurch, where they picked up a fourth and went to Hokitika, thence to Nelson, where this vehicle was abandoned in a quarry. Some of the ears were damaged. The thefts were committed on the journeys. 'Cowper and Ferguson each got three years’ Borstal detention, and Otten two years.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3908, 16 February 1929, Page 3
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184JOY RIDING ROUND SOUTH ISLAND. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3908, 16 February 1929, Page 3
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